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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
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