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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha |
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| sorority are sponsoring their eighth annual legislative visit |
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| to the State Capitol; and
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| WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., was founded in |
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| 1908 as the first sorority established by African-American |
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| college women; and
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| WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha is an international |
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| organization with over 200,000 undergraduate and alumnae |
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| members; and
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| WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha itself is an organization with a |
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| commitment to promoting education, healthy minds and bodies, |
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| family unity, economic development, political empowerment, |
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| cultural heritage, and the arts; and
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| WHEREAS, Alpha Kappa Alpha members who have distinguished |
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| themselves individually include Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott |
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| King, Hazel O'Leary, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Ella |
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| Fitzgerald, Phylicia Rashad, Zina Garrison, Jane Addams, |
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| Marlan Anderson, Margaret Burroughs, Cardiss Collins, Bettiann |
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| Gardner, Marla Gibbs, Gladys Knight, Constance Baker Motley, |
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| Jessye Norman, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Alicia Keys, and |
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| Illinoisan Linda White, international president of Alpha Kappa |
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| Alpha, Inc.; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| the members of this Body, in recognition of the achievements of |
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| the members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and the values |
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| for which they strive, do proclaim Wednesday, March 29, 2006, |
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| as the Eighth Annual Alpha Kappa Alpha Day throughout the State |
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| of Illinois; and be it further
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