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RESOLUTION NO. 7,161
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A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING MARCH 4 -10
AS WOMEN'S HISTORY WEEK.
WHEREAS, American women of every race, class and ethnic
background helped found this nation in countless recorded and
unrecorded ways as servants, slaves, nurses, nuns, homemakers,
industrial workers, teachers, reformers, soldiers, and pioneers;
and,
WHEREAS, American women have shared equally in the
burdens of.building the world's greatest democracy; and
WHEREAS, American women have served and continue to serve
in critical educational, economic, cultural, and social roles in
every sphere of our Nation's life, by constituting a significant
portion of the labor force in every economic and domestic sphere;
and,
WHEREAS, Women have given America the gift of humanity
throughout our history by providing the majority of the Nation's
volunteer labor force; and,
WHEREAS, the Women of America have been particularly
important in the establishment of early charitable,
philanthropic, and cultural institutions in this country; and,
WHEREAS, American women of every race, class, and ethnic
background served as early leaders in the vanguard of every major
progressive social change movement, not only to secure their own
rights, but to extend constitutional rights and the rights of
common humanity to our nation and to the world.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OF THE CITY OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
Section 1. The week of March 4 - March 10 is hereby
proclaimed to be Women's History Week.
ADOPTED: March 7, 1984
ATTEST:
APPROVED:
MAYOR J. W. enati d
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