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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 310
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In Memory |
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of |
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Lani Hanako Silver |
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WHEREAS, The Senate of the State of Texas honors and |
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commemorates the life of Lani Hanako Silver, who died January 28, |
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2009, at the age of 60; and |
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WHEREAS, A resident of the California Bay Area, Lani Silver |
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was a leader in the community and renowned for her political |
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activism, her commitment to social justice, and her humanitarian |
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endeavors; and |
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WHEREAS, She was born on March 28, 1948, in Lynn, |
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Massachusetts, and moved to San Francisco with her parents and |
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sisters when she was two months old; she earned a bachelor's |
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degree in political science and a master's degree in government |
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from the University of San Francisco and a master's degree in |
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political science from the University of Chicago; and |
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WHEREAS, A trip to South Africa when she was 19 years old |
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led to her intense interest in poverty and civil rights issues; |
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when she returned to the Bay Area, she began working in the Jewish |
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community; in 1981 she went to Israel and that same year she |
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founded the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project, for which |
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she coordinated 1,700 oral histories with 1,400 survivors and |
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witnesses of the Holocaust; she was the first consultant for |
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Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation for Visual History; and |
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WHEREAS, Lani Silver worked to raise awareness about James |
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Byrd, Jr., the African American who was killed by white |
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supremacists in Jasper, Texas; she helped collect 2,500 oral |
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histories about the impact of racism and served as director of |
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the James Byrd, Jr., Racism Oral History Project, a program of |
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the Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing; and |
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WHEREAS, Lani Silver was a remarkable woman with many |
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talents who spent her lifetime working diligently for the causes |
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she believed in; she made a lasting impact on the lives of many |
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people, and she leaves behind memories that will be treasured |
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forever by all who knew her; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 81st |
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Legislature, hereby pay tribute to the life of Lani Hanako Silver |
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and extend sincere condolences to her bereaved family; and, be it |
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further |
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RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared as an |
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expression of deepest sympathy from the Texas Senate, and that |
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when the Senate adjourns this day, it do so in memory of Lani |
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Hanako Silver. |
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Ellis |
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President of the Senate |
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I hereby certify that the |
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above Resolution was adopted by |
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the Senate on February 25, 2009, |
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by a rising vote. |
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Secretary of the Senate |
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Member, Texas Senate |