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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION |
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| INTRODUCED BY CURRY, BEYER, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, D. COSTA, DiGIROLAMO, D. EVANS, FLECK, FRANKEL, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARPER, HELM, HENNESSEY, HORNAMAN, KOTIK, MAHONEY, MAJOR, McCALL, MILLARD, MOUL, MURT, O'NEILL, PAYNE, REICHLEY, ROSS, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SONNEY, VULAKOVICH, WALKO AND WATERS, APRIL 8, 2009 |
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| INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, APRIL 8, 2009 |
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| A RESOLUTION |
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1 | Honoring the life and contributions of Dr. John Hope Franklin. |
2 | WHEREAS, Dr. John Hope Franklin was born in 1915 in an |
3 | African-American community in Rentiesville, Oklahoma; and |
4 | WHEREAS, Dr. Franklin died on March 25, 2009, at 94 years of |
5 | age from congestive heart failure; and |
6 | WHEREAS, During his 70-year career, Dr. Franklin served as a |
7 | civil rights pioneer, educator and scholar; and |
8 | WHEREAS, Dr. Franklin worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, |
9 | Jr., W.E.B. DuBois, Thurgood Marshall and many other civil |
10 | rights pioneers; and |
11 | WHEREAS, In 1954, Dr. Franklin's scholarly research aided |
12 | Thurgood Marshall and helped win the pivotal Supreme Court Case, |
13 | Brown v. Board of Education, which found the "separate but |
14 | equal" doctrine to be unconstitutional in public schools; and |
15 | WHEREAS, Dr. Franklin was granted this nation's highest |
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1 | civilian honor in 1995 when President William Jefferson Clinton |
2 | awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom; and |
3 | WHEREAS, "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African |
4 | Americans" was Dr. Franklin's most significant work and |
5 | influenced the teaching and research regarding slavery and |
6 | reconstruction; and |
7 | WHEREAS, Dr. Franklin taught at some of the finest |
8 | institutions of higher learning in the world, including |
9 | Cambridge University in England, Harvard University, Cornell |
10 | University, the University of California Berkeley, the |
11 | University of Chicago and Duke University; therefore be it |
12 | RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor the life |
13 | and contributions of Dr. John Hope Franklin. |
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