PRINTER'S NO. 3160
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
676
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY GAINEY, DONATUCCI, ZABEL, McNEILL, HILL-EVANS,
KIM, GREINER, SOLOMON, SHUSTERMAN, MERSKI, ULLMAN, RABB,
SONNEY, PASHINSKI, MARKOSEK, HARKINS, KORTZ, RAVENSTAHL,
INNAMORATO, MILLARD, MURT, D. MILLER, ISAACSON, HOHENSTEIN,
KINSEY, KENYATTA, THOMAS, POLINCHOCK, LONGIETTI, FREEMAN,
WHEATLEY, SAINATO, MEHAFFIE, BURNS, A. DAVIS, JONES,
KIRKLAND, YOUNGBLOOD, BIZZARRO, DeLUCA, SANCHEZ, PICKETT,
HOWARD, SCHLOSSBERG AND READSHAW, JANUARY 17, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 17, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and
recognizing the week of January 20 through 26, 2020, as
"Martin Luther King, Jr., Week of Remembrance" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Martin Luther King, Jr., born on January 15, 1929,
in Atlanta, Georgia, followed in his father's and grandfather's
footsteps by becoming a Baptist minister after graduation from
Morehouse College in 1948 and Crozer Theological Seminary in
1951; and
WHEREAS, Dr. King received his doctorate from Boston
University in 1955; and
WHEREAS, In 1954, as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist
Church in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. King organized a citywide
boycott of the city's segregated busing system which led to a
United States Supreme Court decision forcing desegregation of
the buses; and
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