City of Philadelphia - File #: 080578

• File #: 080578
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 6/12/2008
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 6/12/2008
• Title: Honoring and recognizing Wynne Alexander for her impressive career as a journalist, author, composer, civil rights activist, and international recording artist, and commending her on the accomplishment of her ground-breaking new book, Get It From The Drums.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Rizzo, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Goode, Council President Verna, Councilmember Krajewski, Councilmember Miller, Councilmember Reynolds Brown, Councilmember Kenney, Councilmember DiCicco, Councilmember O'Neill, Councilmember Kelly, Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Clarke, Councilmember Sanchez

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
6/12/2008	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED
6/12/2008	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
6/12/2008	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass

Title
Honoring and recognizing Wynne Alexander for her impressive career as a journalist, author, composer, civil rights activist, and international recording artist, and commending her on the accomplishment of her ground-breaking new book, Get It From The Drums.
Body
WHEREAS, At just under nineteen, Wynne Alexander joined the prestigious news staff at radio station, WDAS AM-FM in Philadelphia, where she covered hard-hitting news including interviews and stories on Coretta Scott King, Muhammad Ali, Rosa Parks, Ambassador Andrew Young and B.B. King, to name just a few; and

WHEREAS, Wynne is the author of the first and only music-infused civil rights curriculum in the United States, contained in her ground-breaking new book, Get It From The Drums; and

WHEREAS, That important work was originally commissioned by Dr. Dennis Creedon, Director of Creative and Performing Arts for the School District of Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, Get It From The Drums focuses on the history of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s and 1970s and the music that was a profound part of those movements; and

WHEREAS, A total of seventeen legendary music stars, including John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger and Kenny Gamble donated the rights to their music and lyrics on behalf of history and learning in Philadelphia; and

WHEREAS, During her career, Wynne was active in the community, volunteering her time to young people and providing refuge and guidance to runaways and their distressed parents; and

WHEREAS, In the words of Message-Music's founding father, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member, Grammy-winner Kenny Gamble, "Wynne's impressive work established her as a voice for social justice--and at a very young age,"; and

WHEREAS, She is writer/producer of WDASHistory.org chronicling the enormous social impact of this cultural institution and the revolutionary milestones it set in Civil Rights, Broadcasting and Music History, the website ...