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  H.R. No. 420
 
 
 
R E S O L U T I O N
         WHEREAS, The country's largest and oldest civil rights
  organization, the National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People, is marking the 100th anniversary of its founding on
  February 12, 2009; and
         WHEREAS, In the summer of 1908, the nation was shocked by
  accounts of mob violence that raged for two days against African
  Americans in Springfield, Illinois, the birthplace of President
  Abraham Lincoln; a multiracial group of activists came together in
  response to this outrage and formed the NAACP in New York on
  February 12, 1909, which would have been Lincoln's 100th birthday;
  the next year, founding officer W. E. B. Du Bois, a prominent
  intellectual, launched the association's widely influential
  magazine, The Crisis; and
         WHEREAS, The NAACP established itself as a crucial legal
  advocate with a series of early court battles, and in 1915 it
  vigorously protested the inflammatory film Birth of a Nation, which
  glorified the Ku Klux Klan and perpetuated demeaning stereotypes;
  membership in the NAACP grew rapidly, from around 9,000 in 1917 to
  90,000 three years later, with more than 300 branches across the
  country; and
         WHEREAS, After persistent pressure by the NAACP, President
  Woodrow Wilson made a public statement against lynching in 1918;
  the organization continued to battle this heinous practice
  throughout the 1920s, leading a national debate that brought about
  a sharp decline in such violence; in the 1930s, NAACP members
  blocked the nomination of a segregationist judge to the U.S.
  Supreme Court, and association lawyers Charles Houston and Thurgood
  Marshall won the legal battle to admit an African American student
  to the University of Maryland; and
         WHEREAS, Future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Marshall later
  brought the NAACP one of its greatest legal victories with Brown v.
  the Board of Education, the landmark case that outlawed segregation
  in public schools; the organization joined with other groups in the
  heroic movement ignited by NAACP member Rosa Parks, and its
  lobbying bureau in Washington helped advance integration of the
  armed forces and passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1964, and
  1968, as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965; and
         WHEREAS, Through the years, this groundbreaking organization
  has continued to work tirelessly to end bigotry and discrimination;
  today, more than half a million members advocate for civil rights in
  their communities and monitor barriers to opportunity in the public
  and private sectors; as the NAACP marks its milestone 100th
  anniversary, president and chief executive officer Benjamin Todd
  Jealous has affirmed its commitment to human rights and announced
  heightened efforts in behalf of all Americans to end disparities in
  educational attainment, income, and health; and
         WHEREAS, The NAACP has played a transformational role in
  American history, and through their courage and tenacity, its
  members and distinguished leaders have demonstrated profound
  allegiance to our nation's founding principles of liberty,
  equality, and justice; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 81st Texas
  Legislature hereby congratulate the National Association for the
  Advancement of Colored People on its centennial and commend the
  organization for its remarkable record of achievement.
 
  Thompson
 
 
Straus Gattis Menendez
 
Allen Geren Merritt
 
Alonzo Giddings Miklos
 
Alvarado Gonzales Miller of Comal
 
Anchia Gonzalez Toureilles Miller of Erath
 
Anderson Guillen Moody
 
Aycock Gutierrez Morrison
 
Berman Hamilton Naishtat
 
Bohac Hancock Oliveira
 
Bolton Hardcastle Olivo
 
Bonnen Harless Orr
 
Branch Harper-Brown Ortiz, Jr.
 
Brown of Kaufman Hartnett Otto
 
Brown of Brazos Heflin Parker
 
Burnam Hernandez Patrick
 
Button Herrero Paxton
 
Callegari Hilderbran Pena
 
Castro Hochberg Phillips
 
Chavez Hodge Pickett
 
Chisum Homer Pierson
 
Christian Hopson Pitts
 
Cohen Howard of Fort Bend Quintanilla
 
Coleman Howard of Travis Raymond
 
Cook Hughes Riddle
 
Corte Hunter Rios Ybarra
 
Crabb Isett Ritter
 
Craddick Jackson Rodriguez
 
Creighton Jones Rose
 
Crownover Keffer Sheffield
 
Darby Kent Shelton
 
Davis of Harris King of Parker Smith of Tarrant
 
Davis of Dallas King of Taylor Smith of Harris
 
Deshotel King of Zavala Smithee
 
Driver Kleinschmidt Solomons
 
Dukes Kolkhorst Strama
 
Dunnam Kuempel Swinford
 
Dutton Laubenberg Taylor
 
Edwards Legler Thibaut
 
Eiland Leibowitz Thompson
 
Eissler Lewis Truitt
 
Elkins Lucio III Turner of Tarrant
 
England Madden Turner of Harris
 
Farabee Maldonado Vaught
 
Farias Mallory Caraway Veasey
 
Farrar Marquez Villarreal
 
Fletcher Martinez Vo
 
Flores Martinez Fischer Walle
 
Flynn McCall Weber
 
Frost McClendon Woolley
 
Gallego McReynolds Zerwas
 
  ______________________________
  Speaker of the House     
 
         I certify that H.R. No. 420 was adopted by the House on
  February 12, 2009, by a non-record vote.
 
  ______________________________
  Chief Clerk of the House