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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, The Illinois Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha
3 Sorority are sponsoring their sixth annual legislative visit to
4 the State Capitol; and
 
5     WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., was founded in
6 1908 as the first sorority established by African American
7 college women; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha is an international
9 organization with over 200,000 undergraduate and alumnae
10 members; and
 
11     WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha itself is an organization with a
12 commitment to promoting education, healthy minds and bodies,
13 family unity, economic development, political empowerment,
14 cultural heritage, and the arts; and
 
15     WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha members who have distinguished
16 themselves individually include: Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott
17 King, Hazel O'Leary, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Ella
18 Fitzgerald, Phylicia Rashad, Zina Garrison, and Illinoisan
19 Linda White, international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha,
20 Inc.; therefore, be it
 
21     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
22 NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
23 the members of this Body, in recognition of the achievements of
24 the members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and the values
25 for which they strive, do proclaim Wednesday, March 24, 2004,
26 as the Sixth Annual Alpha Kappa Alpha Day throughout the State
27 of Illinois; and be it further
 
28     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
29 presented to Linda White, international president of Alpha

 

 

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1 Kappa Alpha, Inc.