Proc. 2016-18 Huntsville Civil Rights Movement - Kermit and Bernice Davidson Day 11-18-15
PROCLAMATION
No. 2016-18
WHEREAS HA-YOU, the Huntsville Action for Youth Movement, emerged in the 1960s for
the purpose of desegregating the local community; and
WHEREAS these students began organizing for the desegregation of public facilities by
organizing marches, boycotts, and other nonviolent protests; and
WHEREAS we gather today to soberly recall this time and the work of those who
successfully attained the desegregation of local schools, accommodations, and
businesses, including the faculties, staffs, and student bodies of HISD and SHSU,
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in this year of HA-YOU’s 50 anniversary; and
WHEREAS we hereby recognize leading civil rights activists Kermit and Bernice Davison,
as meetings always took place in their home, which served as an important base
of operation and safe center for this important work.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT HEREBY PROCLAIMED, by the power vested in me
as the Mayor of the City of Huntsville, that
November 18, 2015
be designated as:
Huntsville Civil Rights Movement –
Kermit and Bernice Davison Day
in Huntsville, Texas, and urge all citizens to celebrate their courage and dedication.
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PROCLAIMED AND SIGNED this 18 day of November 2015.
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Mac Woodward, Mayor