Full Text of HR1287 94th General Assembly
HR1287 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Throughout their lives, the Reverend Doctors | 3 |
| Claude and Addie Wyatt have continuously worked in the service | 4 |
| of others; and
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| WHEREAS, For 45 years, Rev. Dr. Claude Wyatt's concern for | 6 |
| the total community involved a ministry in education and | 7 |
| training, social action, and a caring ministry that gave itself | 8 |
| to heavy counseling and guidance to families, marriages, youth, | 9 |
| and particularly those who
lived in economic and social | 10 |
| despair; he has been responsible for rehabilitating alcoholics | 11 |
| and drug addicts, working with youth, gangs, and juveniles in | 12 |
| trouble; he has also served as a constituent for Urban | 13 |
| Ministries for the Church of God in Anderson, Indiana; and
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| WHEREAS, In 1955, Rev. Dr. Claude Wyatt and Rev. Dr. Addie | 15 |
| Wyatt and a small group of people founded the Vernon Park | 16 |
| Church of God; today, the church has a membership of well over | 17 |
| 1,000; and | 18 |
| WHEREAS, Together, the Wyatts worked closely with the late | 19 |
| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from 1956 to 1968; they participated | 20 |
| in the major civil rights marches in Selma, Alabama, | 21 |
| Washington, D.C., and Chicago; Rev. Claude
Wyatt served as | 22 |
| Chicago Director of the Ministerial Leadership Training | 23 |
| Program for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; the | 24 |
| Wyatt's served as founders of Operation Breadbasket and | 25 |
| founders and board members of Operation PUSH; and
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| WHEREAS, The Blackbook Business and National Publication | 27 |
| Agency named Rev. Claude Wyatt as one of its Ten Outstanding | 28 |
| Business and Professional Persons; in November of 1989, he was | 29 |
| inducted into the DuSable Umbrella Alumni Hall of Fame; and
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| WHEREAS, From 1941 to 1954, Rev. Dr. Addie Wyatt was |
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| employed in the meatpacking industry and, because of her | 2 |
| experiences there, she served for the next 30 years in various | 3 |
| capacities with AFL-CIO-affiliated unions; in addition to her | 4 |
| work for organized labor, she has been nationally recognized | 5 |
| for her groundbreaking work in women's rights on the Equal | 6 |
| Rights Amendment and the Equal Pay for Equal Work campaign; | 7 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt appointed her to serve on John F. Kennedy's | 8 |
| Commission on the Status of Women; in 1975, Time magazine named | 9 |
| her as one of twelve Women of the Year and she had the same | 10 |
| distinction bestowed upon her in 1977 by the Ladies Home | 11 |
| Journal; she was a founding member of the National Organization | 12 |
| of Women and the Coalition of Labor Union Women; President | 13 |
| Jimmy Carter appointed her to the International Women's | 14 |
| Commission of the United Nations and she addressed the American | 15 |
| Women's Conference in Houston, Texas; Ebony magazine hailed her | 16 |
| as one of the "100 Most Influential Black Americans", and she | 17 |
| has consulted with countless political leaders at all levels; | 18 |
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| WHEREAS, In 1999, the Claude and Addie Wyatt Community and | 20 |
| Family Life Center was dedicated and serves as a living | 21 |
| landmark to the Wyatts' life and ministry; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 23 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 24 |
| we recognize and commend the Reverend Doctors Claude and Addie | 25 |
| Wyatt, for their spiritual contributions, dedication, | 26 |
| guidance, and spreading God's word to the community, and for | 27 |
| their tireless devotion to equality and justice for all; and be | 28 |
| it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 30 |
| presented to the Reverend Doctors Claude and Addie Wyatt.
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