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THE ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSION FOR WOMEN SUBMITS THE FOLLOWING <br />PROCLAMATION TO THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS: <br />WHEREAS 1998 will mazk the 150th Anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement in the <br />United States, a bold and courageous civil rights movement that began in 1848 in Seneca <br />Falls, New York, at the first Women's Rights Convention ever held; and <br />WHEREAS the Declaration of Sentiments issued by that Convention represents a work as <br />fundamental to our nation's commitment to liberty and personal freedom as does our <br />Declaration of Independence; and <br />WHEREAS the resulting Women's Rights Movement has had a profound and undeniable impact <br />on all aspects of American life, and has opened new and well-deserved opportunities for <br />women in all fields of endeavor; and <br />WHEREAS the full history of this century-and-a-half of efforts now spanning seven generations <br />of unceasing work to achieve equality for fully half the American population still, regrettably, <br />remains unknown and unrecognized by our nation's citizens; and <br />WHEREAS the girls and boys of today, together, have lives faz richer and far fairer as a direct <br />result of the Women's Rights Movement, yet they have scant opportunity to know the <br />heroines, heroes, and lessons of this vital movement through the textbooks of most <br />classrooms; and <br />WHEREAS the twenty-first century will find anever-increasing need for both women and men <br />to shaze in the fundamental responsibilities for our national life acid the blessings that must <br />result from full and equal participation in society; and <br />WHEREAS there still remain substantial barriers to the full equality of America's women before <br />our freedom as a nation can be called complete: <br />NOW, THEREFORE, do we, the Commissioners of Orange County, proclaim the month of <br />Mazch, 1998, as <br />WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH <br />and recognize the year of 1998 as the <br />150th A1~INIVERSARY OF THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT <br />and commend this observance to Orange County's citizens. <br />This the fourth day of Mazch, 1998. <br />Margaret Brown, Chair <br />