House Resolution 10 

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  1  1                HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. ___
  1  2         BY  FORD, BERRY, ABDUL=SAMAD, McCARTHY,
  1  3          H. MILLER, HUNTER, T. TAYLOR, JOCHUM,
  1  4         SMITH, WISE, FOEGE, D. TAYLOR, COHOON,
  1  5           MURPHY, WHITAKER, MERTZ, REICHERT,
  1  6         GASKILL, LYKAM, DANDEKAR, WENDT, BELL,
  1  7          BUKTA, FREVERT, HEDDENS, PETTENGILL,
  1  8           KRESSIG, LENSING, WINCKLER, STAED,
  1  9           MASCHER, REASONER, BAILEY, PALMER,
  1 10            HUSER, DAVITT, D. OLSON, OLDSON,
  1 11          JACOBY, SCHUELLER, T. OLSON, WENTHE,
  1 12           KELLEY, QUIRK, PETERSEN, SHOMSHOR,
  1 13          GAYMAN, SWAIM, KUHN, PAULSEN, STRUYK,
  1 14              RAECKER, ANDERSON, and RANTS
  1 15 A Resolution honoring the National Bar Association
  1 16    for over eight decades of service to the cause of
  1 17    civil rights and equal justice for all.
  1 18    WHEREAS, the State of Iowa played an important role
  1 19 in the early civil rights movement when, in 1925, the
  1 20 National Bar Association was organized in Des Moines,
  1 21 Iowa; and
  1 22    WHEREAS, the founding members of the National Bar
  1 23 Association were James B. Morris, attorney, editor and
  1 24 publisher of the Iowa Bystander; Gertrude Durden Rush,
  1 25 first African=American woman attorney in Iowa; Samuel
  1 26 J. Brown, first African=American Phi Beta Kappa
  1 27 inductee and first African=American graduate of the
  1 28 University of Iowa Law School, attorney and founder of
  1 29 the Des Moines branch of the National Association for
  1 30 the Advancement of Colored People; Charles P. Howard,
  2  1 attorney and founder of the National Negro Publishers
  2  2 Association; and George H. Woodson, first
  2  3 African=American attorney to practice in Iowa, first
  2  4 African=American nominated as a candidate for state
  2  5 representative to the Iowa General Assembly, and the
  2  6 National Bar Association's first president; and
  2  7    WHEREAS, at that time 120 African=American
  2  8 attorneys were members of the organization, at a time
  2  9 when there were fewer than 1,000 African=American
  2 10 attorneys in the nation; and
  2 11    WHEREAS, from those early years the National Bar
  2 12 Association has grown to 84 affiliate chapters in the
  2 13 United States, with affiliates in several countries,
  2 14 representing a professional network of over 40,000
  2 15 lawyers, judges, educators, and law students; and
  2 16    WHEREAS, the credo of the National Bar Association
  2 17 is to advance the science of jurisprudence; improve
  2 18 the administration of justice; preserve the
  2 19 independence of the judiciary and to uphold the honor
  2 20 and integrity of the legal profession; to promote
  2 21 professional and social intercourse among the members
  2 22 of the American and the international bars; to promote
  2 23 legislation that will improve the economic condition
  2 24 of all American citizens, regardless of race, sex or
  2 25 creed in their efforts to secure a free and
  2 26 untrammeled use of the franchise guaranteed by the
  2 27 Constitution of the United States; and to protect the
  2 28 civil and political rights of the citizens and
  2 29 residents of the United States; and
  2 30    WHEREAS, the National Bar Association is the
  3  1 nation's oldest and largest national association
  3  2 representing African=American lawyers and jurists; and
  3  3    WHEREAS, for over 80 years the National Bar
  3  4 Association has led the fight in defense of the rights
  3  5 of African=Americans and poor people everywhere,
  3  6 supporting civil rights, the pro bono legal movement,
  3  7 providing legal assistance to needy individuals, and
  3  8 supporting equal opportunity and voting rights; and
  3  9    WHEREAS, in August 2006, Mr. Linnes Finney, Jr. was
  3 10 inaugurated as the 64th President of the National Bar
  3 11 Association, capping a distinguished legal career as a
  3 12 litigator, arbitrator, and public speaker; and
  3 13    WHEREAS, Mr. Finney, Jr., together with Drake
  3 14 University Law School Dean David Walker, will on
  3 15 February 1, 2007, bestow to the Drake University Law
  3 16 School the papers of the National Bar Association, for
  3 17 archival and research purposes; NOW THEREFORE,
  3 18    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
  3 19 That the House of Representatives honors the National
  3 20 Bar Association for its commitment to the cause of
  3 21 civil rights and equal justice and for over eight
  3 22 decades of tireless work for African=Americans, the
  3 23 poor, and the disenfranchised in this country and
  3 24 around the world.
  3 25 LSB 2095HH 82
  3 26 jr:rj/es/88