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House Concurrent Resolution 30

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  1  1           HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2                 BY  DODERER and MILLAGE
  1  3          (COMPANION TO LSB 2299SS BY HAMMOND)
  1  4 A Concurrent Resolution recognizing the Seventy-fifth
  1  5    Anniversary of the American Civil Liberties Union
  1  6    and the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Iowa Civil
  1  7    Liberties Union.
  1  8    WHEREAS, the National Civil Liberties Bureau,
  1  9 established in 1917 by Roger N. Baldwin and Crystal
  1 10 Eastman to fight against government suppression of
  1 11 dissenters' rights during World War I, became the
  1 12 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1920; and
  1 13    WHEREAS, the founding members, Arthur Garfield
  1 14 Hays, Sophonisba Breckenridge, Norman Thomas, Albert
  1 15 DeSilver, James Weldon Johnson, Jane Addams, Helen
  1 16 Keller, and Felix Frankfurter, established the new
  1 17 organization in a climate of lingering wartime
  1 18 hysteria to defend free speech; to fight
  1 19 discrimination against the foreign-born; to fight the
  1 20 deportation of immigrants for their political beliefs;
  1 21 to defend the right of trade unions to organize and
  1 22 hold meetings; and to secure the release of hundreds
  1 23 of activists imprisoned during the war; and
  1 24    WHEREAS, today, the ACLU honors that legacy by
  1 25 defending the First Amendment rights of even the most
  1 26 unpopular minorities, the right to equal treatment
  1 27 regardless of a person's classification, the right to
  1 28 due process of law, the right to privacy, and other
  1 29 enumerated rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights;
  1 30 and
  2  1    WHEREAS, the Iowa Civil Liberties Union (ICLU), one
  2  2 of the oldest affiliates of the ACLU, comprised of
  2  3 over 2,000 members from across Iowa, is an
  2  4 organization founded in 1935 by Professor Edward S.
  2  5 Allen, College of Mathematics, Ames; J.C. Lewis,
  2  6 President of the Iowa State Federation of Labor, Des
  2  7 Moines; Reverend Stoddard Lane, pastor of Plymouth
  2  8 Congregational Church, Des Moines; John D. Denison,
  2  9 attorney and referee in bankruptcy, Des Moines; Mrs.
  2 10 Laetitia Conrad, Professor of Sociology at Grinnell
  2 11 College, Grinnell; Joseph I. Brody, attorney, Des
  2 12 Moines; and Reverend Aron S. Gilmartin, Des Moines;
  2 13 and
  2 14    WHEREAS, the ICLU is dedicated to protecting and
  2 15 preserving the basic freedoms for all Iowans as
  2 16 guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the
  2 17 Bill of Rights; and
  2 18    WHEREAS, the ICLU takes this mandate seriously and
  2 19 has, for 60 years, opposed, through litigation,
  2 20 legislation, and public education, encroachments on
  2 21 the civil liberties of Iowans, regardless of how
  2 22 unpopular their cause or their political affiliation;
  2 23 NOW THEREFORE,
  2 24    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
  2 25 SENATE CONCURRING, That the Iowa General Assembly
  2 26 recognizes and congratulates the American Civil
  2 27 Liberties Union for 75 continuous years, and the Iowa
  2 28 Civil Liberties Union for 60 continuous years of
  2 29 commitment to protecting the basic civil liberties of
  2 30 all Americans, specifically those of Iowans, and
  3  1 guaranteeing legal representation to groups that have
  3  2 been denied those rights.  
  3  3 LSB 2299HH 76
  3  4 kh/jj/8
     

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