Full Text of HR0809 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute is honoring | 3 | | Alexander Lane, the first African-American male student at | 4 | | Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, who enrolled in 1876; | 5 | | and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Historian Pamela Smoot's research on Lane's life | 7 | | began at SIU-Carbondale's Morris Library and included trips to | 8 | | Chicago, Springfield, and Mississippi; the research shows that | 9 | | Lane was born into slavery in pre-Civil War Mississippi and | 10 | | later migrated to Illinois as a young boy, where he was taken | 11 | | in by a southern Illinois farming family who helped assure he | 12 | | had the opportunity to gain an education at what was then | 13 | | Southern Illinois Normal University; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Alexander Lane served as the first principal of | 15 | | Carbondale's East Side School for Negroes, which later became | 16 | | Attucks School; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Alexander Lane married the former Isabelle | 18 | | Holland, who also attended SIU-Carbondale, and together they | 19 | | had one son before moving to Chicago in the early 1890s in | 20 | | order to attend Rush Medical College, from which he graduated | 21 | | in 1895; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Alexander Lane was appointed assistant physician | 2 | | of Cook County and had a private practice at 1937 S. Archer | 3 | | Avenue in Chicago; he entered politics in 1906 by running for | 4 | | and winning a seat in the Illinois House of Representatives as | 5 | | a Republican, where he became the ninth African-American | 6 | | elected to the Illinois General Assembly; he was reelected in | 7 | | 1908 and served until his death in November 1911; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, To honor his legacy, the Paul Simon Public Policy | 9 | | Institute has established the Alexander Lane Internship | 10 | | Program to foster civic engagement opportunities for students | 11 | | at Southern Illinois University to work with members of the | 12 | | Illinois General Assembly and the Legislative Black Caucus; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Alexander Lane was a trailblazer for first | 14 | | generation college students, the disadvantaged, | 15 | | African-Americans in education, medicine, public health, | 16 | | public service, and elected politics, and African-American | 17 | | State legislators; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute is hosting | 19 | | a Black History Month event at Rush University Medical Center | 20 | | in Chicago on Monday, February 27, 2012 to honor Alexander Lane | 21 | | and his many accomplishments; therefore, be it
| 22 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| 1 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 2 | | we designate February 27, 2012 as "Alexander Lane Day" in the | 3 | | State of Illinois in honor of the Honorable Dr. Alexander M. | 4 | | Lane and his legacy of high achievement against significant | 5 | | challenges; and be it further
| 6 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 7 | | presented to the family of Alexander Lane as a symbol of our | 8 | | esteem and respect of their revered ancestor and to the Paul | 9 | | Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University | 10 | | Carbondale in tribute to its dedication to the telling of the | 11 | | Alexander Lane story.
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