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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. 

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 

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; 


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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; 


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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 

1 Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives 

2 concurring), That the Congress— 

3 (1) recognizes the 98th anniversary of the his4 toric founding of the National Association for the 

5 Advancement of Colored People; and 

6 (2) honors and praises the National Association 

7 for the Advancement of Colored People for its work 

8 to ensure the political, educational, social, and eco9 nomic equality of all persons. 

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