City of Columbus - File #: 215X-2004

• File #: 215X-2004
• Version: 1
• Type: Ceremonial Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 9/24/2004
• In control: Tavares
• On agenda: 9/27/2004
• Final action: 9/29/2004
• Title: We hereby proclaim Tuesday, September 28, 2004 as Voices of Civil Rights day in the City of Columbus.
• Sponsors: Charleta B. Tavares

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/29/2004	1	CITY CLERK	Attest
9/28/2004	1	MAYOR	Signed
9/27/2004	1	Columbus City Council	Adopted	Pass
9/27/2004	1	COUNCIL PRESIDENT	Signed
9/24/2004	1	Council Drafter	Sent to Clerk's Office for Council

Title

We hereby proclaim Tuesday, September 28, 2004 as Voices of Civil Rights day in the City of Columbus.

Body

WHEREAS, The Voices of Civil Rights Bus Tour is being commemorated by a 70 day coast-to-coast journey across 22 states and more than 35 cities to collect firsthand accounts of the Civil Rights Movement; and

WHEREAS, AARP and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights have launched this historic bus tour which follows the path of the 1961 Freedom Riders and aims to preserve the legacy of the civil rights movement; and

WHEREAS, this tour is documenting the past by recording extraordinary stories from ordinary people and is part of an effort to create the world's largest archive of civil rights stories by people who lived through the era; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:

That this Council does hereby proclaim Tuesday, September 28, 2004 as Voices of Civil Rights day in the City of Columbus.