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PROPOSED RESOLUTION
HONORING MR. ARTHUR L. MCCANN
WHEREAS, to "Serve and Protect" is the motto for a policeman. It was also the calling of a great servant leader, Sgt. Arthur L. McCann; and
WHEREAS, Arthur L. McCann was born in 1929 in Paive, Mississippi to parents Ollie and Martha McCann. Mr. McCann had a twin sister Lee Ethel and seven siblings total; and
WHEREAS, Mr. McCann's parents joined the thousands of Mississippians seeking better opportunities during the Great Migration; and
WHEREAS, by 1933, the hard-working McCann family arrived in Chicago where Mr. McCann quickly discovered many of the injustices found in America's southern States were present in his new city; however, these injustices would not keep him from seeking opportunity; and
WHEREAS, Mr. McCann would learn obedience, honesty, integrity, discipline, faith, and hard work from his mother Martha. As the youngest, Mr. McCann received additional guidance from his older brothers, five of which would serve in the Army, Air Force, and Navy; and
WHEREAS, young Arthur watched his older brothers work hard, who in turn, expected nothing less from young Arthur; and
WHEREAS, the streets of Chicago were tough, but the family soon found a church home and fatherly guidance under the teaching of the late great, Bishop Louis H. Ford; and
WHEREAS, the McCann family would be one of the first families of Ford's St. Paul Church of God in Christ founded in 1937. Mr. McCann's mother and sister would serve as missionaries in the church while Mr. McCann and his oldest brother would be Deacons, serving over 60 years; and
WHEREAS, a young Arthur attended Farren Elementary and thrived at DuSable High School where he would build lifelong friendships with young men and women who would become African- American community leaders and trail blazers of Chicago. Mr. McCann developed friendships with such future leaders as former Chicago Mayor Harold Washington and former Cook County Commissioner and Cook County ...
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