| 1 | 1 | | <tr><td class="xsl" colspan="3"><p> </p> </td></tr></td></tr><tr><td class="xsl" colspan="3"><table class="xsl" width="100%"><colgroup width="5%"></colgroup><colgroup width="5%"></colgroup><colgroup width="30%"></colgroup><colgroup width="20%"></colgroup><colgroup width="40%"></colgroup><tr><td class="number"></td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" align="left">SR0256</td><td class="xsl" align="center"></td><td class="xsl" align="right">LRB104 13305 LAW 25560 r</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="xsl"> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">1</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><center><code>SENATE RESOLUTION</code></center> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">2</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. was founded at </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">3</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914 by </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">4</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>three African-American students, A. Langston Taylor, Leonard </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">5</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>F. Morse, and Charles I. Brown, who united to form a fraternity </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">6</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>that would exemplify the ideals of brotherhood, scholarship, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">7</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>and service; and</code> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">8</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>WHEREAS, The founders of Phi Beta Sigma offered support </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">9</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>and encouragement to Arizona Cleaver Stemons, Pearl Anna Neal, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">10</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Myrtle Tyler Faithful, Viola Tyler Goings, and Fannie Pettie </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">11</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Watts as they founded Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. at Howard </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">12</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>University on January 16, 1920 to raise people's </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">13</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>consciousness, encourage scholastic achievement, and foster </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">14</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>unity among members, making Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi Beta </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">15</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>the first and only fraternity and sorority to be </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">16</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>constitutionally bound to each other; and</code> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">17</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma brothers believe that each member </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">18</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>and potential member should be judged by their own merits, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">19</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>rather than family background, affluence, race, nationality, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">20</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>skin tone, or hair texture and should work to return newly </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">21</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>acquired skills to the communities from which they came, with </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">22</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>this conviction mirrored in the fraternity's motto, "Culture </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">23</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>For Service and Service For Humanity"; and</code> </td></tr></table><table class="xsl" width="650"><tr><td class="lineNum" colspan="3"><p> </p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td class="xsl" colspan="3"><table class="xsl" width="100%"><colgroup width="5%"></colgroup><colgroup width="5%"></colgroup><colgroup width="30%"></colgroup><colgroup width="20%"></colgroup><colgroup width="40%"></colgroup><tr><td class="number"></td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" align="left">SR0256</td><td class="xsl" align="center">- 2 -</td><td class="xsl" align="right">LRB104 13305 LAW 25560 r</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="xsl"> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">1</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>WHEREAS, Phi Beta Sigma brothers contributed greatly to </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">2</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>the literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">3</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Renaissance, to the cause of civil rights, civic engagement, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">4</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>and freedom, and to the sciences, and membership has included </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">5</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>writer Alain LeRoy Locke, poet and diplomat James Weldon </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">6</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Johnson, workers' rights activist A. Philip Randolph, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">7</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>scientist George Washington Carver, astronaut Victor Glover, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">8</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Congressmen Elijah Cummings, John Lewis, Adriano Espaillat, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">9</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>and Harold Lee Washington, who also served as the first Black </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">10</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Mayor of Chicago, as well as Nnamdi Azikiwe and his </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">11</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>contemporary Kwame Nkrumah, the first presidents of </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">12</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>independent Nigeria and Ghana, respectively; and</code> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">13</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>WHEREAS, Zeta Phi Beta was the first Black greek-lettered </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">14</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>organization to centralize its operations in a national </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">15</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>headquarters, first to charter a chapter in Africa, and the </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">16</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>first to form auxiliary groups and currently boasts hundreds </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">17</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>of chapters worldwide and over 125,000 members who seek to </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">18</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>upload its ideals of "Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood, and </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">19</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Finer Womanhood"; and</code> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">20</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>WHEREAS, Zeta Phi Beta sisters contributed greatly to the </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">21</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">22</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Renaissance, to the cause of civil rights, civic engagement, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">23</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>and freedom, and to the sciences, and membership has included </code></td></tr></table><table class="xsl" width="650"><tr><td class="lineNum" colspan="3"><p> </p><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td class="xsl" colspan="3"><table class="xsl" width="100%"><colgroup width="5%"></colgroup><colgroup width="5%"></colgroup><colgroup width="30%"></colgroup><colgroup width="20%"></colgroup><colgroup width="40%"></colgroup><tr><td class="number"></td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" align="left">SR0256</td><td class="xsl" align="center">- 3 -</td><td class="xsl" align="right">LRB104 13305 LAW 25560 r</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td class="xsl"> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">1</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, attorney </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">2</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Violette Anderson, educator Dr. Elizabeth Koontz, journalist </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">3</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>and media entrepreneur Clara McLaughlin, and psychiatrist and </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">4</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>substance abuse treatment expert Dr. Alyce Gullattee; </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">5</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>therefore, be it</code> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">6</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">7</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare April 30, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">8</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>2025 as Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi Beta Day in the State of </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">9</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Illinois; and be it further</code> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">10</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>RESOLVED, That we commend the efforts of the members of </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">11</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">12</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Inc. for their commitment to community service and recognize </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">13</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>their collective contributions to making their communities a </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">14</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>better place to live, work, and play; and be it further</code> </td></tr><tr><td class="number">15</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code> </code><code>RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">16</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>presented to the International President of Phi Beta Sigma </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">17</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Fraternity, Inc., Chris V. Rey, the International First Vice </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">18</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>President of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and Illinoisan, David </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">19</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>A. Turner, the International President of Zeta Phi Beta </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">20</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Sorority, Inc., Dr. Stacie N. C. Grant, and the Great Lakes </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">21</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Regional Director and Illinois State Director of both the Phi </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">22</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>Beta Sigma Fraternity and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority as a symbol </code></td></tr><tr><td class="number">23</td><td class="junk"></td><td class="xsl" ><code>our respect and esteem.</code> |
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