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C:c~IJNTY_ O.F EiI.JTTE, _STATE QF CALIFORNIA
Reso~ufion
RESOLOTION DESIGNATING THE WEEK BEGINNING
FIARCH 2, 1986 AS "WOMEN'S HISTORY WEEK"
No. 86-25
WHEREAS, American women of every rz,cc:, class, and ethnic background
helped found the 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 played and continue to play a critical
economic, cultural, social role in every sphere of our Nation's life by
constituting a significant portion of the labor force working in and outside
of the home; and
WHEREAS, American women have played a unique role throughout our
history by providing the majority of the Nation's volunteer labor force
and have been particularly important in the establishment of early charitable
philanthropic and cultural institutions in the country; and
WHEREAS, American women of every race, class and ethnic background
served as early leaders in the forefront of every major progressive social
change movement, not only to secure their own right of sufferage and equal
opportunity, but also in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation movement,
the industrial labor union movement and the modern civil rights movement;
and
WHEREAS, despite these contributions, the role of American women
in history has been consistently overlooked and undervalued in the body
of American history.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE TT RESOLVED by the Butte County Board of
Supervisors that the week beginning March 2, 1986 is designated as "4Jomen'~
History Week," and this Board issues this proclamation calling upon the'
people of the County of Butte to observe such a week appropriate with
ceremonies and activities.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of Supervisors, County of Butte,
this 4th day of March, 1986, by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Dolan, Fulton, McInturf and Chairman McLaughlin
NOES: None
ABSENT: Supervisor Wheeler
NOT VOTING: None
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ED McLAUGHLIN, Chairman of the
Butte County Board of Supervisors
ATTEST:
MARTIN J. NICHOLS, Chief Administrative
Officer and Clerk of the Board
By