Full Text of HR0915 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are saddened to learn of the death of Reverend | 4 | | Addie Wyatt, who passed away on March 28, 2012; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, She married the late Reverend Dr. Claude Wyatt on | 6 | | May 12, 1940; they were married for 69 years; during that time, | 7 | | they founded and co-pastored the Vernon Park Church of God in | 8 | | Chicago and had 2 sons, Claude S. Wyatt and Renaldo Wyatt; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, She was born on March 28, 1924 in Brookhaven, | 10 | | Mississippi to Ambrose and Maggie Cameron and was a personal | 11 | | friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; she came to Chicago in | 12 | | 1930, when she was 6 years old, and when her mother died, she | 13 | | raised her siblings; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, She tried out for a typist job but was told she | 15 | | failed the test, so she began working at a meat packing company | 16 | | in 1941, where she worked until 1953; once there, she was | 17 | | elected vice president of the United Packinghouse Workers of | 18 | | America Local 56; she was the first African-American to hold | 19 | | such a high labor union position; she went on to become the | 20 | | director of the Women's Affairs and Human Rights Departments of | 21 | | the Amalgamated Meat Cutters; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In the 1960s, Eleanor Roosevelt honored her | 2 | | leadership skills by appointing her to a position on the | 3 | | Protective Labor Legislation Committee of the United States | 4 | | Commission on the Status of Women; in the 1970s, she held a | 5 | | powerful position in the United Food and Commercial Workers | 6 | | International Union, and in 1974, she founded the Coalition of | 7 | | Labor Union Women; in 1976, she became the international vice | 8 | | president of the United Food and Commercial Workers; and | 9 | | WHEREAS,
She and her husband always took time to give back | 10 | | to the community, especially with their civil rights work; she | 11 | | was ordained in 1955 as a Church of God minister; her husband | 12 | | was also ordained in the same faith; together they worked with | 13 | | Dr. King, including at the March on Washington, the march from | 14 | | Selma to Montgomery, and at other civil rights events; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Reverend Wyatt was a founder and board member of | 16 | | Operation Breadbasket; she also worked very closely with the | 17 | | Southern Christian Leadership Conference as an advisor; she and | 18 | | her husband founded the Wyatt Choral Ensemble in 1944; and | 19 | | WHEREAS, Reverend Wyatt is survived by her son, Claude, and | 20 | | numerous grandchildren; therefore, be it
| 21 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 22 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| 1 | | we mourn, along with her family and friends, the passing of | 2 | | Reverend Addie Wyatt; and be it further
| 3 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 | | presented to the family of Reverend Addie Wyatt as a symbol of | 5 | | our sincere sympathy.
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