South Carolina General Assembly

117th Session, 2007-2008

H. 5270

STATUS INFORMATION

Concurrent Resolution

Sponsors: Reps. F.N.Smith, Agnew, Alexander, Allen, Anderson, Anthony, Bales, Ballentine, Bannister, Barfield, Battle, Bedingfield, Bingham, Bowen, Bowers, Brady, Branham, Brantley, Breeland, G.Brown, R.Brown, Cato, Chalk, Clemmons, Clyburn, CobbHunter, Coleman, Cooper, Cotty, Crawford, Daning, Dantzler, Davenport, Delleney, Duncan, Edge, Erickson, Frye, Funderburk, Gambrell, Govan, Gullick, Hagood, Haley, Hamilton, Hardwick, Harrell, Harrison, Hart, Harvin, Haskins, Hayes, Herbkersman, Hiott, Hodges, Hosey, Howard, Huggins, Hutson, Jefferson, Jennings, Kelly, Kennedy, Kirsh, Knight, Leach, Limehouse, Littlejohn, Loftis, Lowe, Lucas, Mack, Mahaffey, McLeod, Merrill, Miller, Mitchell, MoodyLawrence, Moss, Mulvaney, J.H.Neal, J.M.Neal, Neilson, Ott, Owens, Parks, Perry, Phillips, Pinson, E.H.Pitts, M.A.Pitts, Rice, Rutherford, Sandifer, Scarborough, Scott, Sellers, Shoopman, Simrill, Skelton, D.C.Smith, G.M.Smith, G.R.Smith, J.E.Smith, J.R.Smith, W.D.Smith, Spires, Stavrinakis, Stewart, Talley, Taylor, Thompson, Toole, Umphlett, Vick, Viers, Walker, Weeks, Whipper, White, Whitmire, Williams, Witherspoon and Young

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Companion/Similar bill(s): 5269

Introduced in the House on June 4, 2008

Introduced in the Senate on June 4, 2008

Adopted by the General Assembly on June 4, 2008

Summary: Rosena A. Talley

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

DateBodyAction Description with journal page number

6/4/2008HouseIntroduced, adopted, sent to Senate HJ118

6/4/2008SenateIntroduced, adopted, returned with concurrence SJ30

VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

6/4/2008

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR ROSENA A. TALLEY, OF CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, FOR TWENTYNINE YEARS AS AN EDUCATOR AND FOR HER CONTRIBUTION TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA.

Whereas, the members of the South Carolina General Assembly are grateful for the twentynine years that Rosena A. Talley served in the field of education; and

Whereas, with her husband the late Frank Talley, Sr., she raised three fine children, Michael F. Talley, Mary Rose Dingle, and Frank Talley, Jr., who have blessed her with five grandchildren and one greatgrandchild; and

Whereas, in 1955, Rosena Talley earned an associate degree in elementary education from Coulter Academy Junior College and a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Benedict College the following year; and

Whereas, she taught seventh and eighth grade both at Sparta Elementary School in Georgia from 1956 to 1959 and also at Deep Creek Elementary School in North Carolina from 19641968, where she also coached high school girl’s basketball; and

Whereas, in 1968, she began teaching third grade at Robert Smalls Elementary School in Cheraw, where she remained for the next twentyone years, and during these years beginning in 1952, Rosena Talley was also selfemployed as a cosmetologist in Rose’s Beauty Salon; and

Whereas, in 1965, this dedicated teacher, wife, mother, grandmother of Michanna Talley, Michael F. Talley, Jr., Camela Dingle Bell, William Dingle III, and Frajovon Talley, greatgrandmother of Chelsea Bell, and church member began a challenge to the segregated public schools in Cheraw when her youngest son and a few other AfricanAmerican students began to attend previously segregated Cheraw High School in the face of numerous threats and violent attacks on her home and family; and

Whereas, the members of the South Carolina General Assembly express their profound appreciation to Rosena A. Talley for her commitment to the students of South Carolina and for her tenacity in the quest for racial equality. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the members of the South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, recognize and honor Rosena A. Talley, of Chesterfield County, for twentynine years as an educator and for her contribution to the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to Rosena A. Talley.

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