HomeMy WebLinkAboutS Proclamation - Human Rights & Relations - For Women's History Month 03-04-1998-6aTHE ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSION FOR WOMEN SUBMITS THE FOLLOWING
PROCLAMATION TO THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS:
WHEREAS 1998 will mark the 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement in the
United State, a bold and courageous civil rights movement that began in 1848 in Seneca Falls,
New York, at the first Women's Rights Convention ever held; and
WHEREAS the Declaration of Sentiments issued by that Convention represents a work as
fundamental to our nation's commitment to liberty and personal freedom as does our Declaration
of Independence; and
WHEREAS that declaration launched a movement that has changed this nation and the hopes of
its women irrevocably; and
WHEREAS the resulting Women's Rights Movement has had a profound and undeniable impact
on all aspects of American life, and has opened new and well-deserved opportunities for women
in all fields of endeavor, including among others commerce, athletics, business, education,
religion, the arts, and scientific exploration; and
WHEREAS the full history of this century-and -a-half of efforts now spanning seven generations
of unceasing work to achieve equality for fully half the American population still, regrettably,
remains unknown and unrecognized by our nation's citizens; and
WHEREAS the girls and boys of today, together, have lives far richer and far fairer as a direct
result of the Women's Rights Movement, yet they have scant opportunity to know the heroes and
lessons of this vital movement through the textbooks of most classrooms; and
WHEREAS the twenty-first century will find anever-increasing need for both women and men
to share in the fundamental responsibilities for our national life and the blessings that must result
from full .and equal participation in society; and
WHEREAS there still remain substantial barriers tot he full equality of America's women before
our freedoms a nation can be called complete:
NOW, THEREFORE, do we, the Commissioners of Orange County, proclaim the month of
March, 1998, as
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
and commend this observance to Orange County citizens.
This the fourth day of March, 1998.
Mazg a Brown, Chair