Full Text of HR0970 95th General Assembly
HR0970 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha | 3 |
| sorority are sponsoring their tenth annual legislative visit to | 4 |
| the State Capitol; and
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| WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., was founded in | 6 |
| 1908 as the first sorority established by African-American | 7 |
| college women; in 2008 the Sorority will celebrate the 100th | 8 |
| anniversary of the founding of the national organization; and
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| WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha is an international | 10 |
| organization with over 200,000 undergraduate and alumnae | 11 |
| members; and
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| WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha itself is an organization with a | 13 |
| commitment to promoting education, healthy minds and bodies, | 14 |
| family unity, economic development, political empowerment, | 15 |
| cultural heritage, and the arts; and
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| WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha members who have distinguished | 17 |
| themselves individually include Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott | 18 |
| King, Hazel O'Leary, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Ella | 19 |
| Fitzgerald, Phylicia Rashad, Zina Garrison, Jane Addams, | 20 |
| Marlan Anderson, Margaret Burroughs, Cardiss Collins, Bettiann | 21 |
| Gardner, Marla Gibbs, Gladys Knight, Constance Baker Motley, |
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| Jessye Norman, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Alicia Keys, and | 2 |
| Illinoisan Linda White, international president of Alpha Kappa | 3 |
| Alpha, Inc.; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 5 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 6 |
| the members of this Body, in recognition of the achievements of | 7 |
| the members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and the values | 8 |
| for which they strive, do proclaim Wednesday, March 12, 2008, | 9 |
| as the Tenth Annual Alpha Kappa Alpha Day throughout the State | 10 |
| of Illinois; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 |
| presented to Linda White, international president of Alpha | 13 |
| Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
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