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THIRD READING
Bill No: SCR 73
Author: Mitchell (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SUBJECT : Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution designates that January 20, 2014, be
observed as the official memorial of the late Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.s birth and commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
and the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights
Movement in changing public policy in California and in the
United States of America. Also recognizes the anniversaries of
the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington in
connection with the advancement of civil rights.
ANALYSIS : This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1.One hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, on
August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and others
organized hundreds of thousands of blacks and whites, Jews and
gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, in a march to the Lincoln
Memorial in Washington D.C. where Dr. King made his famous "I
Have a Dream" speech announcing that the days of segregation
in the United States were numbered.
2.Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement helped change public
policy from legal and socially acceptable discrimination and
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segregation to an open and accessible policy of racial
integration leading to equal participation and access to
primary and higher education, housing, employment,
transportation, federal, state, and local governmental
elections, and other aspects of public policy relating to
human rights.
3.These public policy changes at the national level influenced
many changes in California that culminated in the passage of
the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the Rumford Fair Housing Act,
in open enrollment and access to higher education specifically
with respect to the California State University and the
University of California, and in employment and labor laws,
transportation policy, election laws, and other aspects of
public policy.
4.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
serve as a model for principled leadership and
forward-thinking, bipartisan public policy.
This resolution designates that January 20, 2014, be observed as
the official memorial of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s
birth and commemorates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and the work
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement in
changing public policy in California and in the United States of
America. Also recognizes the anniversaries of the Emancipation
Proclamation and the March on Washington in connection with the
advancement of civil rights.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
MW:nl 1/15/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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