Full Text of SR0416 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 | | learn of the death of legendary civil rights icon, Alice | 4 | | Tregay; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay was a native of Evanston, known as a | 6 | | child by the name of Lucille Hicks; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay became active in public life in the | 8 | | 1960s; in 1971, along with her longtime allies, (the late) | 9 | | Janice Bell and Rev. Willie T. Barrow (who recently preceded | 10 | | her in death), she helped start the Political Education | 11 | | Division for Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership | 12 | | Conference, under the leadership of a young organizer named | 13 | | Jesse Jackson; and taught thousands of students how to organize | 14 | | citizens and lead political campaigns; she served as director | 15 | | and chief lobbyist for the Black Illinois Legislative Lobby in | 16 | | Springfield from 1977 to 1982; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay directed the local and national voter | 18 | | registration, voter education, and get-out-the-vote campaigns | 19 | | under Operation Breadbasket, PUSH, and Rainbow/PUSH, including | 20 | | the historic election and re-election of Chicago's first black | 21 | | Mayor Harold Washington; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay and her husband, James, marched | 2 | | numerous times alongside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in support | 3 | | of open housing and desegregation in the Chicago public | 4 | | schools; she was also the President of the South Shore | 5 | | Organization for Human Rights; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay has advocated on behalf of the | 7 | | disadvantaged, registered thousands of new voters, and managed | 8 | | or worked on behalf of many high-profile political campaigns, | 9 | | including Rev. Jackson's presidential campaigns of 1984 and | 10 | | 1988, and President Obama's campaign in 2008, and as a result, | 11 | | the citizens of Illinois and those across the country are | 12 | | better off; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, A documentary on Alice Tregay's extraordinary | 14 | | life, "Alice's Ordinary People", was presented to a full-house | 15 | | at the Shorefront Legacy Center on June 19, 2013; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Alice Tregay was never one to slow down and was | 17 | | still promoting voter registration late in her life; she will | 18 | | go down in history as registering more voters than any other | 19 | | voter education activist in political history; therefore, be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL | 21 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn the passing of | 22 | | a civil rights icon, Alice Tregay, and extend our sincere |
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| 1 | | condolences to her family, friends, and all who knew and loved | 2 | | her; and be it further
| 3 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 4 | | presented to the family of Alice Tregay as an expression of our | 5 | | deepest sympathy.
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