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This resolution, a formal expression of opinion by the Tennessee Senate and House of Representatives, honors the Negro Women's Civic Club of Greeneville on its seventy-fifth anniversary. The resolution acknowledges the club's founding on June 11, 1950, during a time of segregation, by Lena B. Lee and seven other women who aimed to improve their community. It highlights the club's significant contributions, including providing charitable aid like Christmas food baskets and scholarships, organizing voter registration drives, establishing youth programs, and notably, raising funds to build a swimming pool for the Black community in 1954 when they were excluded from the town's pool. The resolution recognizes the club as one of Tennessee's oldest women's organizations and extends best wishes for its continued success.