City of Baltimore - File #: 15-0209R

• File #: 15-0209R
• Version: 0
• Name: Women's HerStory Month - "Weaving the Stories of Women's Lives"
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 3/9/2015
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 3/9/2015
• Title: Women's HerStory Month - "Weaving the Stories of Women's Lives" FOR the purpose of recognizing March as Women's History Month, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Women's History Movement, and urging all Baltimoreans to reflect on the theme of this year's event - Weaving the Stories of Women's Lives - as well as the importance of acknowledging the critical role that women of every race, class, and ethnic background have played throughout history and the many ways that women's history has become woven into the fabric of our national story.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, Brandon M. Scott, Eric T. Costello, James B. Kraft, Carl Stokes, Bill Henry, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Warren Branch, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Nick Mosby, Robert Curran, William "Pete" Welch
• Indexes: "HerStory Month", Women

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/9/2015	0	City Council	Adopted
3/9/2015	0	City Council	Introduced

* 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: Councilmember Holton


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Women's HerStory Month - "Weaving the Stories of Women's Lives"
FOR the purpose of recognizing March as Women's History Month, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Women's History Movement, and urging all Baltimoreans to reflect on the theme of this year's event - Weaving the Stories of Women's Lives - as well as the importance of acknowledging the critical role that women of every race, class, and ethnic background have played throughout history and the many ways that women's history has become woven into the fabric of our national story.
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Recitals

March is National Women's History Month. Every year the National Women?s History Project selects a unifying theme to be shared with all who want to promote women?s history. This year?s theme of ?Weaving the Stories of Women?s Lives? presents the opportunity to weave women?s stories ? individually and collectively ? into the essential fabric of our nation?s history.

Each year since 1987, the United States Congress has passed a proclamation declaring March as Women's History Month. This month is intended to be a focus on the fact that ?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? (1987 Congressional Proclamation) as well as on accounts of American women...