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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
| 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of
John |
| 4 | | Henry Samuel Wallace, who passed away on June 16, 2016; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace was born on July 19, 1925; and
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| 6 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace served his country honorably and |
| 7 | | proudly as a World War II Naval veteran; he served his
God |
| 8 | | morally and nobly as an ordained elder in the African Methodist |
| 9 | | Episcopal Church; and
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| 10 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace graduated from Chicago State |
| 11 | | University with a master's degree
in special education; he was |
| 12 | | a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and was a |
| 13 | | chartering
member of two campus chapters; and
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| 14 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace taught at Malcolm X College where he |
| 15 | | also served as a Dean; he
went on to become Executive Director |
| 16 | | of the Institute for the Study of Educational Policy at Howard
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| 17 | | University in Washington D.C.; and
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| 18 | | WHEREAS, In the 1970s and 1980s, John Wallace took action |
| 19 | | against the predominately white
New Trier High School in |
| 20 | | Winnetka after his son was forced to read Mark Twain's |
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| 1 | | Huckleberry
Finn aloud in class; recognizing the novel as |
| 2 | | racially intolerant, he took up this issue and appeared on
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| 3 | | Nightline with Ted Koppel and had numerous articles printed by |
| 4 | | the Washington Post; he went on
to rewrite the novel, replacing |
| 5 | | the "N" word with "slave"; and
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| 6 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace was preceded in death by his |
| 7 | | siblings, Jo Anne and James, and his sons, Johnny and Mark
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| 8 | | (Mary) Wallace; and
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| 9 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace is survived by his
wife of 62 years, |
| 10 | | Joan; his sons, Eric (Jennifer) and Victor (Karen); his |
| 11 | | grandchildren, Eric, Gregory,
and Jahanah; his |
| 12 | | great-grand-daughter, Ja'Mayah; and his siblings, Mary |
| 13 | | Livingston and Peter (Katsuko); therefore, be it
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| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
| 15 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
| 16 | | we, along with his family and friends, mourn the passing of |
| 17 | | John Henry Samuel
Wallace; and be it further
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| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
| 19 | | presented to the family of John Wallace as an expression of our |
| 20 | | sympathy.
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