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