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HOUSE RESOLUTION


 
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    WHEREAS, The Illinois Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha 
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sorority are sponsoring their eleventh annual legislative 
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visit to the State Capitol; and
 

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    WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., was founded in 
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1908 as the first sorority established by African-American 
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college women; and
 

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    WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha is an international 
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organization with over 200,000 undergraduate and alumnae 
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members; and
 

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    WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha itself is an organization with a 
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commitment to promoting education, healthy minds and bodies, 
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family unity, economic development, political empowerment, 
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cultural heritage, and the arts; and
 

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    WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha members who have distinguished 
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themselves individually include Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott 
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King, Hazel O'Leary, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Ella 
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Fitzgerald, Phylicia Rashad, Zina Garrison, Jane Addams, 
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Marlan Anderson, Margaret Burroughs, Cardiss Collins, Bettiann 
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Gardner, Marla Gibbs, Gladys Knight, Constance Baker Motley, 
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Jessye Norman, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Alicia Keys, and 
 


 






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Illinoisan Linda White, international president of Alpha Kappa 
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Alpha, Inc.; therefore, be it
 


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    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 
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NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that 
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the members of this Body, in recognition of the achievements of 
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the members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and the values 
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for which they strive, do proclaim Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 
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as the Eleventh Annual Alpha Kappa Alpha Day throughout the 
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State of Illinois; and be it further
 

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    RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be 
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presented to Linda White, international president of Alpha 
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Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.