PRINTER'S NO. 2119
No. 324 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY WILLIAMS, BEBKO-JONES, BISHOP, COSTA, CRUZ, DALEY,
DeWEESE, DONATUCCI, D. EVANS, FABRIZIO, FORCIER, GABIG,
GEIST, GEORGE, GRUCELA, HARHAI, HENNESSEY, JAMES, KIRKLAND,
LEDERER, McGILL, MELIO, PALLONE, READSHAW, ROBERTS, ROEBUCK,
RUBLEY, SHANER, THOMAS, WANSACZ, WASHINGTON, WATERS,
WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD, CREIGHTON, COHEN, HERSHEY, WALKO,
JOSEPHS, PISTELLA AND GOODMAN, JUNE 23, 2003
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JUNE 23, 2003
A RESOLUTION
1 Commemorating the journalistic excellence of Jack Franklin and
2 Kendall Wilson and designating June 22, 2003, as "Jack
3 Franklin and Kendall Wilson Day" in Pennsylvania.
4 WHEREAS, Print journalist Kendall Wilson and photojournalist
5 Jack Franklin have documented more than three generations of
6 African-American news; and
7 WHEREAS, Kendall Wilson has spent more than 35 years in the
8 field of communications as a public relations and marketing
9 consultant and executive, information officer and journalist;
10 and
11 WHEREAS, For the past two decades, Kendall Wilson has been a
12 senior writer with The Philadelphia Tribune, focusing on civil
13 rights, government, foreign affairs and politics; and
14 WHEREAS, In 1998 Kendall Wilson won the prestigious National
15 Newspaper Publishers Association's A. Philip Randolph Award for
1 his series on the struggle of black family-owned funeral homes
2 to avoid corporate takeover; and
3 WHEREAS, Jack Franklin has documented the struggle for civil
4 rights, the founding of many significant organizations during
5 that struggle and the ethnic culture, rituals and burial rites
6 of a people; and
7 WHEREAS, Jack Franklin's collection housed at the African
8 American Museum in Philadelphia totals more than 300,000
9 negatives spanning the past 60 years; and
10 WHEREAS, Jack Franklin's work has appeared in SEPIA, Nite
11 Life, Scoop USA, The Philadelphia Independent, The Afro
12 American, The Philadelphia Tribune and Ebony/JET magazines;
13 therefore be it
14 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives commemorate the
15 journalistic excellence of Jack Franklin and Kendall Wilson and
16 designate June 22, 2003, as "Jack Franklin and Kendall Wilson
17 Day" in Pennsylvania; and be it further
18 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives urge all public
19 and private educational institutions in this Commonwealth, the
20 State Library, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
21 and the Department of Education to promote the study of Jack
22 Franklin's and Kendall Wilson's contributions to American
23 journalism and culture.
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