[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 10 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. CON. RES. 10

 Honoring and praising the National Association for the Advancement of 
        Colored People on the occasion of its 98th anniversary.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           February 12, 2007

  Mrs. Clinton (for herself, Mr. Reid, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Schumer, Ms. 
 Mikulski, Mr. Cardin, Mr. Lieberman, Mr. Brown, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Lugar, 
 Mr. Sanders, Mr. Crapo, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Landrieu, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. 
Levin, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Stabenow, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Biden, 
   Mr. Webb, Mr. Byrd, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Warner, Mr. 
 Casey, and Mr. Baucus) submitted the following concurrent resolution; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Honoring and praising the National Association for the Advancement of 
        Colored People on the occasion of its 98th anniversary.

Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 
        originally known as the National Negro Committee, was founded in New 
        York City on February 12, 1909, the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's 
        birth, by a multiracial group of activists who answered ``The Call'' for 
        a national conference to discuss the civil and political rights of 
        African Americans;
Whereas the NAACP was founded by a distinguished group of leaders in the 
        struggle for civil and political liberty, including Ida Wells-Barnett, 
        W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison 
        Villiard, and William English Walling;
Whereas the NAACP is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the 
        United States;
Whereas the mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, 
        social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate 
        racial hatred and racial discrimination;
Whereas the NAACP is committed to achieving its goals through nonviolence;
Whereas the NAACP advances its mission through reliance 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 NAACP has used political pressure, marches, demonstrations, and 
        effective lobbying to serve as the voice, as well as the shield, for 
        minority Americans;
Whereas after years of fighting segregation in public schools, the NAACP, under 
        the leadership of Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall, won one of its 
        greatest legal victories in the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown 
        v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483;
Whereas, in 1955, NAACP member Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for refusing to 
        give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, an act of 
        courage that would serve as the catalyst for the largest grassroots 
        civil rights movement in the history of the United States;
Whereas the NAACP was prominent in lobbying for the passage of the Civil Rights 
        Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964 (Public Laws 85-315, 86-449, and 88-352), 
        the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (Public Law 89-110), the Fair Housing Act 
        of 1968 (Public Law 90-284), and the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and 
        Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act 
        of 2006 (Public Law 109-246), laws that ensured legislative protection 
        for victories in the courts; and
Whereas, in 2005, the NAACP launched the Disaster Relief Fund to help survivors 
        in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, and Alabama to rebuild their 
        lives after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That the Congress--
            (1) recognizes the 98th anniversary of the historic 
        founding of the National Association for the Advancement of 
        Colored People; and
            (2) honors and praises the National Association for the 
        Advancement of Colored People for its work to ensure the 
        political, educational, social, and economic equality of all 
        persons.
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