HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 03-06-2002 - 5b 1
ORANGE COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT
Meeting Date: March 6, 2002
Action Agen a
Item No. -b
SUBJECT: Women's History Month
DEPARTMENT: Human Rights and Relations PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No
'ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT:
Annette M. Moore, ext 2250
Proclamation
TELEPHONE NUMBERS:
Hillsborough 732-8181
Chapel Hill 968-4501
Durham 688-7331
Mebane 336-227-2031
PURPOSE: To officially recognize March 2001, as Women's History Month.
BACKGROUND: To recognize that the talent, energy, intellect, and determination of countless
women who have shaped our destiny and enriched our society since our earliest days. The
Orange County Commission for Women will celebrate Women's History Month with Pulitzer
Prize Winning Cartoonist Doug Marlette on Sunday March 17, 2002, from 2pm to 4pm at New
Hope Elementary School Auditorium. Mr. Marlette will speak about his grandmother's
involvement in the local labor uprising of 1934. Other guests include The Raging Grannies and
Sista Rhonda. Elsewhere, in Orange County, the Feminist Student's Union will be hosting
benefit performances of the Vagina Monologues, and the Women's Studies Department at UNC
will be hosting feminist activists including Marcia Gillespie, former editor of Ms. Magazine and
President of Liberty Media for Women L.L.C.
FINANCIAL IMPACT: None
RECOMMENDATION: The Manager recommends that the Board approve the Proclamation
and authorizes the Chair to sign it.
r
2
ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, American women of every culture, class, and ethnic background have made
historic contributions to the growth and strength of our Nation in countless recorded and
unrecorded ways; and
WHEREAS, American women have played and continue to play a critical economic,
cultural, and social role in every sphere of the life of the Nation by constituting a significant portion
of the labor force working inside and outside of the home; and
WHEREAS, American women have played a unique role throughout the history of the
Nation by providing the majority of the volunteer labor force of the Nation; and
WHEREAS, American women were particularly important in the establishment of early
charitable, philanthropic, and cultural institutions in our Nation; and
WHEREAS, American women of every culture, class, and ethnic background served as
early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social change movement; and
WHEREAS, American women have been leaders, not only in securing their own rights of
suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement,
the industrial labor movement, the civil rights movement, and other movements, especially the
peace movement, which create a more fair and just society for all; and
WHEREAS, despite these contributions, the role of American women in history has been
consistently overlooked and undervalued, in the literature, teaching and study of American history;
and
WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners on March 25, 1976,
established the Orange County Commission for Women to promote the growth and development
of all Orange County women and the Commission has been doing that for more than 25 years;
NOW, THEREFORE, do we, the Board of Commissioners of Orange County, North
Carolina hereby proclaim March 2002 as "Women's History Month" and commend this
observance to Orange County citizens.
THIS THE 6"'DAY OF MARCH. 2002.
Barry Jacobs, Chair
Orange County Board of County Commissioners