Full Text of HR1448 094th General Assembly
HR1448 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the | 3 |
| State of Illinois are pleased to congratulate Ruby Dee on being | 4 |
| the 2006 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the | 5 |
| Chicago International Film Festival Black Perspectives; and
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| WHEREAS, Ruby Dee was born on October 27, 1924, in | 7 |
| Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Harlem, New York; she graduated | 8 |
| from Hunter College in 1945 with degrees in French and Spanish; | 9 |
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Dee made several appearances on Broadway | 11 |
| before receiving national recognition for her role in the film | 12 |
| "The Jackie Robinson Story"; her acting career has crossed all | 13 |
| major forms of media over a span of eight decades; and
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| WHEREAS, She has been nominated for eight Emmy Awards and | 15 |
| won two, one for her role in "Decoration Day" and once for a | 16 |
| guest appearance on the program "China Beach"; and
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| WHEREAS, Ms. Dee and her late husband, actor Ossie Davis, | 18 |
| were well-known civil rights activists; she has been a member | 19 |
| of CORE, the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating | 20 |
| Committee, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; | 21 |
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| WHEREAS, She has appeared in more than 20 films, and her | 23 |
| notable stage appearances include roles in "A Raisin in the | 24 |
| Sun" and Genet's "The Balcony"; in addition to her two Emmy | 25 |
| awards, her acting has been honored with an Obie Award in 1971 | 26 |
| for her performance in Athol Fugard's "Boesman and Lena", a | 27 |
| Drama Desk Award in 1972 for her role in "Wedding Band", and an | 28 |
| Ace Award for her ground-braking performance as Mary Tyrone in | 29 |
| Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night"; as Kate in | 30 |
| "The Taming of the Shrew" and Cordelia in "King Lear", in 1965, |
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| she became the first African-American woman to play major parts | 2 |
| in the American Shakespeare Festival; she has written plays, | 3 |
| musicals, and several books of poetry, and she turned her own | 4 |
| stories and folk tales into the 1998 one-woman show "One Good | 5 |
| Nerve"; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1988, she was inducted into the American | 7 |
| Theatre Hall of Fame; along with her husband, she has been | 8 |
| inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame, awarded the | 9 |
| Silver Circle Award by the Academy of Television Arts and | 10 |
| Sciences, the National Medal of Arts Award, and the Screen | 11 |
| Actors Guild's Lifetime Achievement Award; in December 2004, | 12 |
| they were recipients of the John F. Kennedy Center Honors for | 13 |
| their contributions to the performing arts; she is a member of | 14 |
| Actors' Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, the | 15 |
| American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the | 16 |
| Writers Guild; and
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| WHEREAS, In honor of her many achievements, Ms. Dee will | 18 |
| receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Chicago | 19 |
| International Film Festival Black Perspectives on Friday, | 20 |
| October 13, 2006; therefore, be it | 21 |
| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 22 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 23 |
| we congratulate Ruby Dee on receiving the Lifetime Achievement | 24 |
| Award from the Chicago International Film Festival Black | 25 |
| Perspectives; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 27 |
| presented to Ms. Dee as an expression of our deep respect and | 28 |
| esteem.
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