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City of Fort Collins
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS,American women have played and continue to playa critical role in every
sphere of our nation's life;and
WHEREAS,American women of everyage,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 suffrage and equal opportunity, but also in the abolitionist
movement,the emancipation movement,the labor union movement,the fight for education,
the modem civil rights movement, and today in the drive for health care for all;and
WHEREAS,despite these contributions,the role of American women in history has
been too often overlooked and undervalued in the body of American history.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Doug Hutchinson,Mayor of the City of Fort Collins, do
hereby proclaim the month of March as
NATIONAL WOMEN'S
HISTORY MONTH
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,I have hereunto set my-hand and the seal of the City of
Fort Collins this 6th day of March,A.D. 2007.
Mayor
ATTEST.
City Clerk
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