PRINTER'S NO. 417
No. 79 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAMS, BELFANTI, BISHOP, BLACKWELL, BUXTON,
CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, CURRY, DENLINGER, DeWEESE, DONATUCCI,
FABRIZIO, GALLOWAY, GEIST, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GOODMAN,
GRUCELA, HESS, JAMES, MANDERINO, MANTZ, MILLARD, M. O'BRIEN,
PARKER, PETRONE, PHILLIPS, RAMALEY, SCAVELLO, SONNEY, THOMAS,
VULAKOVICH AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 13, 2007
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
FEBRUARY 13, 2007
A RESOLUTION
1 Commemorating the achievements and contributions the Honorable
2 Crystal Bird Fauset made during her lifetime to the General
3 Assembly and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
4 WHEREAS, The Honorable Crystal Bird Fauset, born on October
5 15, 1894, was a graduate of Boston public schools and earned a
6 bachelor's degree from Columbia University's Teachers College;
7 and
8 WHEREAS, Ms. Fauset was a social worker for the YWCA in New
9 York and Philadelphia and was named Executive Secretary for the
10 Institute for Race Relations at Swarthmore College in 1933; and
11 WHEREAS, Ms. Fauset was elected to the Pennsylvania House of
12 Representatives in 1938, thereby becoming the first African-
13 American woman to be elected to a state legislature in the
14 United States; and
15 WHEREAS, Ms. Fauset later became Assistant Director for the
16 Works Progress Administration in Pennsylvania and served as a
1 race relations advisor to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and New
2 York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia; and
3 WHEREAS, Ms. Fauset was chairperson of the Philadelphia Negro
4 Woman's Democratic League and a member of the board of trustees
5 of Cheyney State Teachers College and the board of directors of
6 the Small Business Opportunities Corporation of Philadelphia;
7 and
8 WHEREAS, Ms. Fauset died on March 27, 1965; therefore be it
9 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor and
10 commemorate the lifetime of service and achievement of the
11 Honorable Crystal Bird Fauset.
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