[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 33 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 33

Commending and praising the National Association for the Advancement of 
        Colored People on the occasion of its 90th anniversary.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 11, 1999

Mr. Engel (for himself, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Watts of Oklahoma, Mr. Meeks of 
New York, Ms. Kilpatrick, Ms. Christian-Christensen, Mr. Ford, Ms. Lee, 
   Ms. Millender-McDonald, Mr. Rush, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Mrs. 
Clayton, Mr. Cummings, Mr. Owens, Mr. Fattah, Ms. Brown of Florida, Mr. 
   Conyers, Ms. Norton, Mr. Thompson of Mississippi, Mr. Hastings of 
 Florida, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Clay, Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. 
Davis of Illinois, and Mr. Gonzalez) submitted the following concurrent 
    resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Commending and praising the National Association for the Advancement of 
        Colored People on the occasion of its 90th anniversary.

Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was 
        formed on February 12, 1909, in New York City by a group of 60 black and 
        white citizens committed to helping to right social injustices and renew 
        the struggle for civil and political liberty;
Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People recruited 
        a distinguished group of black leaders in the struggle for civil rights, 
        such as W.E.B. Dubois and Ida Wells-Barnett;
Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is the 
        oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States;
Whereas the principal objective of the National Association for the Advancement 
        of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and 
        economic equality for all citizens of the United States;
Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is 
        committed to achieving its goals through nonviolence and relies upon the 
        press, the petition, the ballot, and the courts, and has been persistent 
        in the use of legal and moral persuasion, even in the face of overt and 
        violent racial hostility;
Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has been 
        active through political pressure, marches, demonstrations, and 
        effective lobbying and has served as the voice, as well as the shield 
        for minority Americans;
Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, through 
        the leadership of legal advocates like Thurgood Marshall, obtained 
        constitutional guarantees of full citizenship rights for minority 
        Americans through the courts and ended segregation in schools through 
        civil rights cases such as Brown v. Board of Education; and
Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was also 
        prominent in lobbying for the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 
        1960, and 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing 
        Rights Act of 1968, laws which ensured Government protection for legal 
        victories achieved: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the historic founding 
of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the 
Congress commends and praises the National Association for the 
Advancement of Colored People for working to ensure the political, 
educational, social, and economic equality of minority group citizens 
of the United States.
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