Full Text of HR0712 099th 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 Julian | 4 | | Bond, who passed away on August 15, 2015; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Horace Julian Bond, generally known as Julian | 6 | | Bond, was born in Nashville, Tennessee on January 14, 1940; 5 | 7 | | years later, his family moved to Pennsylvania, where his father | 8 | | served as the first African-American President of Lincoln | 9 | | University; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, In 1957, Julian Bond enrolled at Atlanta's | 11 | | Morehouse College, where he helped found The Pegasus, a | 12 | | literary magazine, and interned at Time magazine; while still a | 13 | | student, he became a founding member of the Committee on Appeal | 14 | | for Human Rights; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Julian Bond led nonviolent student protests | 16 | | against segregation in Atlanta parks, restaurants, and movie | 17 | | theaters; in 1960, he helped form the Student Nonviolent | 18 | | Coordinating Committee in Raleigh, North Carolina; the | 19 | | following year, he left Morehouse to serve as the SNCC's | 20 | | communications director, a position he held for 5 years; he | 21 | | returned to Morehouse a decade later and received a degree in | 22 | | English; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In 1965, Julian Bond was voted into the Georgia | 2 | | House of Representatives; however, the Georgia House refused to | 3 | | swear him into his seat because he had endorsed a SNCC | 4 | | statement that decried the war in Vietnam; Martin Luther King, | 5 | | Jr. subsequently organized a protest rally on Bond's behalf; in | 6 | | 1966, the case went to the United States Supreme Court, which | 7 | | unanimously ruled in Bond's favor on the basis of freedom of | 8 | | speech; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Julian Bond was finally able to take his seat in | 10 | | the Georgia House of Representatives in 1967; he served in the | 11 | | Georgia House until 1975 and went on to serve in the Georgia | 12 | | Senate from 1975 to 1986; during his tenure in the state | 13 | | legislature, he wrote over 60 bills that were ratified as law; | 14 | | and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Julian Bond attended the 1968 Democratic National | 16 | | Convention in Chicago, where he was nominated as a | 17 | | vice-presidential candidate; he was the first African American | 18 | | to receive the honor, but withdrew his name because he was not | 19 | | old enough to hold the office according to constitutional | 20 | | guidelines; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, From 1971 to 1979, Julian Bond served as president | 22 | | of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization he also |
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| 1 | | co-founded; he was president of Atlanta's chapter of the | 2 | | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | 3 | | before becoming the chairman of the national NAACP, a position | 4 | | he held from 1998 until 2010; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Julian Bond was a prominent voice in the media; he | 6 | | was a commentator for NBC's Today show, wrote a national | 7 | | newspaper column, and produced poems that have appeared in | 8 | | publications such as The Nation and the New York Times; he was | 9 | | also a professor of history at the University of Virginia and | 10 | | an adjunct professor at American University; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 13 | | mourn the death of Julian Bond and recognize his life, | 14 | | commitments, and achievements; and be it further
| 15 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 16 | | presented to the family of Julian Bond as an expression of our | 17 | | sympathy.
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