Alabama 2025 Regular Session

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5	5	By Representative Hollis
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7	7	First Read: 04-Mar-25
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15	15	HR____ RECOGNIZING CATRENA NORRIS CARTER FOR HER
16	16	ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN ADVOCATING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.
17	17	WHEREAS, with great pride and special pleasure,
18	18	highest commendations are conveyed to Catrena Norris Carter
19	19	for her unwavering fight in ensuring that civil rights are
20	20	not forgotten; and
21	21	WHEREAS, Ms. Carter is a native of Selma and received
22	22	a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from The University
23	23	of Alabama at Birmingham after spending two years on a
24	24	performing arts scholarship at Loretto Heights College in
25	25	Denver, Colorado; and
26	26	WHEREAS, Catrena is a 35-year veteran of both civil
27	27	and women's rights movements in America; that passion has
28	28	led to her founding several nonprofit organizations that
29	29	have aided oppressed people in finding the help and justice
30	30	they deserve; and
31	31	WHEREAS, Catrena co-founded and is currently CEO of
32	32	Salute Selma, Incorporated, a nonprofit organization
33	33	designed to take the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement
34	34	and apply these solutions to everyday business practices; in
35	35	2020, on the 55th Anniversary of the Historic Selma to
36	36	Montgomery March, Salute Selma partnered with the National
37	37	Pan-Hellenic Council to organize the first ever Black Women
38	38	Led March, where more than 30,000 women, activists, and
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68	68	Led March, where more than 30,000 women, activists, and
69	69	citizens showed up from across the globe to commemorate that
70	70	legendary march; and
71	71	WHEREAS, for three decades, Ms. Carter has led
72	72	successful efforts as the National Coordinator of the Bridge
73	73	Crossing Jubilee, Incorporated, an organization that founded
74	74	the annual reenactment of the 1965 Bridge Crossing, which
75	75	has brought hundreds of thousands of supporters to Selma,
76	76	including former Presidents Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, Barrack
77	77	Obama, and George W. Bush; and
78	78	WHEREAS, Catrena also founded Women of Will (WOW), a
79	79	nonprofit that has trained hundreds of women to run for
80	80	political office and headed the "Vote or Die" movement which
81	81	led to Doug Jones becoming the first United States Senator
82	82	representing the Democratic Party of Alabama; and
83	83	WHEREAS, Ms. Carter was Associate Publisher of the
84	84	publication "Who's Who in Black Alabama" and has over 20
85	85	years of award-winning hospitality experience; she was the
86	86	former Director of Sales and Marketing for the Historic
87	87	Redmont Hotel and the Tutwiler Hotel; she received national
88	88	recognition from Wyndham International as the 2010 Best of
89	89	by Request winner, before receiving the Restaurant and
90	90	Hospitality Association's prestigious Hospitality Manager of
91	91	the Year for the State of Alabama; in 2020, she received the
92	92	Best of Minority Business Award for nonprofits; in 2015, she
93	93	was nominated as one of al.com's Women Who Shape the State
94	94	Award and was named one of 2015's Top 40 Women of Influence
95	95	in the Southeast; in 2013, she was voted one of the Top 10
96	96	Powerhouse Women in the State of Alabama and received the
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126	126	Powerhouse Women in the State of Alabama and received the
127	127	Birmingham Spotlight Award along with the NAACP's Regional
128	128	2014's Women of Wisdom Award; now therefore,
129	129	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
130	130	LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, That civil rights advocate, Catrena
131	131	Norris Carter, is highly commended for her many long-lasting
132	132	contributions and achievements over the course of her
133	133	career, and this resolution is offered to her as evidence of
134	134	our high regard and appreciation for her sustained advocacy
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