City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0264R

• File #: 07-0264R
• Version: 0
• Name: Women's History Month - March, 2007
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 3/12/2007
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 3/12/2007
• Title: Women's History Month - March, 2007 FOR the purpose of adopting the Congressional Women's History Month Proclamation, joining with the rest of the country in a national celebration of the many historic contributions women have made to this nation, and proudly acknowledging a historic moment in Baltimore City's women's history.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, President Young, James B. Kraft, Helen L. Holton, Robert Curran, Belinda Conaway, Mary Pat Clarke, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Sharon Green Middleton, Kenneth Harris, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Rochelle Spector, Keiffer Mitchell
• Indexes: Resolution, Women

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/12/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
3/12/2007	0	City Council	Adopted

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: President Rawlings-Blake


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Women's History Month - March, 2007

FOR the purpose of adopting the Congressional Women's History Month Proclamation, joining with the rest of the country in a national celebration of the many historic contributions women have made to this nation, and proudly acknowledging a historic moment in Baltimore City's women's history.
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WHEREAS, American women of every race, 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 playa 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 race, 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 right...