Full Text of HR1351 99th 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
John | 4 | | Henry Samuel Wallace, who passed away on June 16, 2016; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace was born on July 19, 1925; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace served his country honorably and | 7 | | proudly as a World War II Naval veteran; he served his
God | 8 | | morally and nobly as an ordained elder in the African Methodist | 9 | | Episcopal Church; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace graduated from Chicago State | 11 | | University with a master's degree
in special education; he was | 12 | | a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and was a | 13 | | chartering
member of two campus chapters; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace taught at Malcolm X College where he | 15 | | also served as a Dean; he
went on to become Executive Director | 16 | | of the Institute for the Study of Educational Policy at Howard
| 17 | | University in Washington D.C.; and | 18 | | WHEREAS, In the 1970s and 1980s, John Wallace took action | 19 | | against the predominately white
New Trier High School in | 20 | | Winnetka after his son was forced to read Mark Twain's |
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Finn aloud in class; recognizing the novel as | 2 | | racially intolerant, he took up this issue and appeared on
| 3 | | Nightline with Ted Koppel and had numerous articles printed by | 4 | | the Washington Post; he went on
to rewrite the novel, replacing | 5 | | the "N" word with "slave"; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace was preceded in death by his | 7 | | siblings, Jo Anne and James, and his sons, Johnny and Mark
| 8 | | (Mary) Wallace; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, John Wallace is survived by his
wife of 62 years, | 10 | | Joan; his sons, Eric (Jennifer) and Victor (Karen); his | 11 | | grandchildren, Eric, Gregory,
and Jahanah; his | 12 | | great-grand-daughter, Ja'Mayah; and his siblings, Mary | 13 | | Livingston and Peter (Katsuko); therefore, be it
| 14 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 15 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 16 | | we, along with his family and friends, mourn the passing of | 17 | | John Henry Samuel
Wallace; and be it further
| 18 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 19 | | presented to the family of John Wallace as an expression of our | 20 | | sympathy.
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