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 12 2 STA T .5 1 30CON C UR R E NT RESO L UT I ONS —F E B .2 8, 2008 PRESID E NT I AL INA UG URATI O N —C APITOL ROTUNDA AUT H ORI Z ATION Resolv e dbyth e S e na te ( the H o u seo f Re pr esentat i ves c oncur - rin g),SECTION1.U SEO F T H E R OTUN DA OF THE CA P ITO LBY THE J OINT CON G RESSIONAL CO M MITTEE ON INAUGURAL CERE - MONIES. Therotunda o f the U n i ted S tate sC a p ito l is authori z ed to b e used on J anuar y20, 200 9, by the Joint Con g ressional Co m mittee on I naugural Ceremonies in c onnection w ith the proceedings and ceremonies conducted for the inauguration of the P resident - elect and the V ice President-elect of the United States .A greed to F ebruary 2 8, 2008.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE—99TH ANNIVERSARY RECOGNITION

Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), originally known as the National Negro Committee, was founded in New York City on February 12, 1909, the centennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, by a multiracial group of activists who answered 'The Call' for a national conference to discuss the civil and political rights of African-Americans;

Whereas the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded by a distinguished group of leaders in the struggle for civil and political liberty, including Ida Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. DuBois, Henry Moscowitz, Mary White Ovington, Oswald Garrison Villard, and William English Walling;

Whereas the NAACP is the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States;

Whereas the mission of the NAACP is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination; Whereas the NAACP is committed to achieving its goals through nonviolence; Whereas the NAACP advances its mission through reliance upon the press, the petition, the ballot, and the courts, and has been persistent in the use of legal and moral persuasion, even in the face of overt and violent racial hostility; Whereas the NAACP has used political pressure, marches, dem- onstrations, and effective lobbying to serve as the voice, as well as the shield, for minority Americans; Whereas after years of fighting segregation in public schools, the NAACP, under the leadership of Special Counsel Thurgood Mar- shall, won one of its greatest legal victories in the Supreme Court’s 19 54 decision in Brown v. Board of Education; Mar.5,20 0 8[H . Con . Res .28 9]F e b . 28, 2008 [ S . Con. Res. 6 8]

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