Full Text of HR0500 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Under the leadership of A. Philip Randolph, the | 3 | | Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was the first Black | 4 | | union in America to win a collective bargaining agreement with | 5 | | a major U.S. corporation and to be chartered under the American | 6 | | Federation of Labor; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, In 1941, A. Philip Randolph successfully | 8 | | organized a call for mass protests to fight discrimination | 9 | | against blacks in wartime jobs; that protest was called off | 10 | | after President Franklin Roosevelt issued an Executive Order | 11 | | banning all discriminatory practices; another threatened | 12 | | protest caused President Harry Truman to issue an Executive | 13 | | Order abolishing the practice of segregation in the U.S. Armed | 14 | | Forces; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, The ensuing successes led A. Philip Randolph to | 16 | | organize the 1963 March on Washington, D.C., where Dr. Martin | 17 | | Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, The A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum was | 19 | | founded in 1995 by Dr. Lyn Hughes; the museum is a self-funded | 20 | | African American labor history museum located in the Historic | 21 | | Pullman District and is the only cultural institution in the | 22 | | nation that showcases the history of the African American labor |
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| 1 | | union movement, the BSCP, and A. Philip Randolph; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum | 3 | | proudly celebrates and honors its namesake's lifelong | 4 | | leadership in securing employment for all Americans, as well as | 5 | | his momentous work to end discrimination and secure employment | 6 | | opportunities for African Americans in organized labor; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The accomplishments of the BSCP and its founder, | 8 | | A. Philip Randolph, opened the doors to organized labor for | 9 | | African Americans and created a vehicle through which many | 10 | | Civil Rights activities were begun; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 12 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 13 | | we commemorate the 94th anniversary of the Brotherhood of | 14 | | Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) and commend the accomplishments of | 15 | | the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum; we wish the | 16 | | museum continued success in preserving and protecting the | 17 | | history of A. Philip Randolph, the Pullman Porters, the African | 18 | | American Labor Movement, and the Pullman District; and be it | 19 | | further
| 20 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 21 | | presented to David A. Peterson, President of the A. Philip | 22 | | Randolph Pullman Porter Museum, and to Dr. Lyn Hughes, Founder |
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| 1 | | of the A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum.
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