Full Text of HR0323 94th General Assembly
HR0323 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Vernon Park Church of God in Chicago | 3 |
| celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1955, Rev. Dr. Claude Wyatt and Rev. Dr. Addie | 5 |
| Wyatt and a small group of people founded the Vernon Park | 6 |
| Church of God; today, the church has a membership of well over | 7 |
| 1,000; and
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| WHEREAS, For 45 years, Rev. Claude Wyatt's concern for the | 9 |
| total community involved a ministry in education and training, | 10 |
| social action, and a caring ministry which gave itself to heavy | 11 |
| counseling and guidance to families, marriages, youth, and | 12 |
| particularly those who
lived in economic and social despair; he | 13 |
| has been responsible for rehabilitating alcoholics and drug | 14 |
| addicts, working with youth, gangs, and juveniles in trouble; | 15 |
| he has also served as a constituent for Urban Ministries for | 16 |
| the Church of God in Anderson, Indiana; and
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| WHEREAS, Rev. Claude Wyatt and his wife of 64 years, Rev. | 18 |
| Addie Wyatt, worked closely with the late Dr. Martin Luther | 19 |
| King Jr. from 1956 to 1968; they participated in the major | 20 |
| civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama, Washington, D.C., and | 21 |
| Chicago; Rev. Claude
Wyatt served as Chicago Director of the | 22 |
| Ministerial Leadership Training Program for the Southern | 23 |
| Christian Leadership Conference; the Wyatt's served as | 24 |
| founders of Operation Breadbasket and founders and board | 25 |
| members of Operation PUSH; and
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| WHEREAS, The Blackbook Business and National Publication | 27 |
| Agency named Rev. Claude Wyatt as one of its Ten Outstanding | 28 |
| Business and Professional Persons; in November of 1989, he was | 29 |
| inducted into the DuSable Umbrella Alumni Hall of Fame; and
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| WHEREAS, From 1941 to 1954, Rev. Addie Wyatt was employed |
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| in the meatpacking industry and, because of her experiences | 2 |
| there, she served for the next 30 years in various capacities | 3 |
| with AFL-CIO-affiliated unions; in addition to her work for | 4 |
| organized labor, she has been nationally recognized for her | 5 |
| groundbreaking work in women's rights on the Equal Rights | 6 |
| Amendment and the Equal Pay for Equal Work campaign; Eleanor | 7 |
| Roosevelt appointed her to serve on John F. Kennedy's | 8 |
| Commission on the Status of Women; in 1975, Time magazine named | 9 |
| her as one of twelve Women of the Year and she had the same | 10 |
| distinction bestowed upon her in 1977 by the Ladies Home | 11 |
| Journal; she was a founding member of the National Organization | 12 |
| of Women and the Coalition of Labor Union Women; President | 13 |
| Jimmy Carter appointed her to the International Women's | 14 |
| Commission of the United Nations and she addressed the American | 15 |
| Women's Conference in Houston, Texas; Ebony magazine hailed her | 16 |
| as one of the "100 Most Influential Black Americans" and she | 17 |
| has consulted with countless political leaders at all levels; | 18 |
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| WHEREAS, In 1999, the Claude and Addie Wyatt Community and | 20 |
| Family Life Center was dedicated and serves as a living | 21 |
| landmark to the Wyatts' life and ministry; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 23 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 24 |
| we congratulate the Vernon Park Church of God on the occasion | 25 |
| of its 50th anniversary and commend its founding pastors, | 26 |
| Reverends Claude and Addie Wyatt, for their spiritual | 27 |
| contributions, dedication, guidance, and spreading God's word | 28 |
| to the community; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 30 |
| presented to the founding pastors of the Vernon Park Church of | 31 |
| God, Reverends Claude and Addie Wyatt.
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