PRINTER'S NO. 2073
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
135
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY SAPPEY, McNEILL, HILL-EVANS, FREEMAN, HENNESSEY,
HOHENSTEIN, SCHMITT, ISAACSON, KINSEY, KIRKLAND, SANCHEZ,
BULLOCK, M. MACKENZIE, GALLOWAY, SAMUELSON AND T. DAVIS,
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Designating the month of September 2021 as "International
Underground Railroad Month" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania was a strategic and historic location
of freedom through the Underground Railroad; and
WHEREAS, Thousands of men and women risked their own freedom
to help freedom seekers escape bondage; and
WHEREAS, People such as Basil Biggs, Thomas and Frances
Scroggins Brown, Lucinda Bryant, Charles C. Burleigh, Martin R.
Delany, Robert Douglass, Jr., James Forten, William C.
Goodridge, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Dr. Francis J. LeMoyne,
Lucretia Mott, William Nesbit, William Parker, John Peck, Robert
Purvis, Sarah Forten Purvis, Dr. William Rutherford, Abraham
Shadd, Stephen Smith, Thaddeus Stevens, William Still, John
Vashon, Albert Vosburgh, William Whipper, John Greenleaf
Whittier, Lewis Woodson and others devoted their lives to this
cause; and
WHEREAS, The American Anti-Slavery Society was an interracial
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