Full Text of HR1303 93rd General Assembly
HR1303 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Shirley Chisholm, the first African American | 3 |
| woman elected to the United States Congress and an | 4 |
| inspirational advocate for women and minorities, passed away on | 5 |
| January 1, 2005; and
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| WHEREAS, She was born Shirley St. Hill on November 30, 1924 | 7 |
| in New York, and was the eldest of four daughters of a Guyanese | 8 |
| father and a Barbadian mother; she grew up in Barbados, then | 9 |
| returned to her native Brooklyn, New York, graduating from | 10 |
| Brooklyn College in 1946; and
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| WHEREAS, While teaching nursery school and serving as | 12 |
| director of the Friends Day Nursery in Brooklyn, she studied | 13 |
| elementary education at Columbia University, where she | 14 |
| received her master's degree in 1952; an education consultant | 15 |
| for New York City's day-care division, she was also active with | 16 |
| community and political groups, including the National | 17 |
| Association for the Advancement of Colored People and her | 18 |
| district's Unity Democratic Club; and
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| WHEREAS, From 1964 to 1968, she represented her Brooklyn | 20 |
| district in the New York state legislature;
in 1968, she was | 21 |
| elected to the U.S. House of Representatives; as a candidate | 22 |
| for the Democratic nomination for U.S. President in 1972, she | 23 |
| won 152 delegates before withdrawing from the race; and
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| WHEREAS, She was a founder of the National Women's | 25 |
| Political Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus; | 26 |
| throughout her congressional career, which lasted from 1969 to | 27 |
| 1983, she supported the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion | 28 |
| rights; she wrote the autobiographical works "Unbought and | 29 |
| Unbossed" and "The Good Fight"; after her retirement from | 30 |
| Congress, she was a sought-after lecturer; she also held the | 31 |
| position of Purington Professor at Mount Holyoke College from |
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| 1983 to 1987, and was a visiting scholar at Spelman College in | 2 |
| 1985; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 4 |
| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 5 |
| mourn the passing of Shirley Chisholm, a woman of great | 6 |
| courage, a civil rights icon, and a champion of women and | 7 |
| African Americans.
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