House Bill 9375
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Florida House of Representatives - 1998 HR 9375
By Representatives Dennis, Roberts-Burke, Dawson-White,
Eggelletion, Wasserman Schultz, Mackenzie, Turnbull, Ritter,
Horan, Kosmas, Chestnut, D. Prewitt, Betancourt, Bullard,
Hill, Bush, Tamargo, Culp, Sanderson, Frankel, Boyd, Greene,
(Additional Sponsors on Last Printed Page)
1 House Resolution
2 A resolution recognizing the 150th anniversary
3 of the Women's Rights Movement.
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5 WHEREAS, 1998 will mark the 150th anniversary of the
6 Women's Rights Movement in the United States, a bold and
7 courageous civil rights movement that began in 1848 in Seneca
8 Falls, New York, at the first Women's Rights Convention ever
9 held, and
10 WHEREAS, the Declaration of Sentiments issued by that
11 convention represents a work as fundamental to our nation's
12 commitment to liberty and personal freedom as does our
13 Declaration of Independence and launched a movement that has
14 changed this nation and the hopes of its women irrevocably,
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16 WHEREAS, the resulting Women's Rights Movement has had
17 a profound and undeniable impact on all aspects of American
18 life, and has opened new and well-deserved opportunities for
19 women in all fields of endeavor, including among others
20 commerce, athletics, business, education, religion, the arts,
21 and scientific exploration, and
22 WHEREAS, the full history of this century and a half of
23 efforts now spanning seven generations of unceasing work to
24 achieve equality for fully half the American population still,
25 regretably, remains unknown and unrecognized by our nation's
26 citizens; and, although the girls and boys of today have lives
27 far richer and far fairer as a direct result of the Women's
28 Rights Movement, yet they have scant opportunity to know the
29 heroes and lessons of this vital movement through the
30 textbooks of most classrooms, and
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1 WHEREAS, the twenty-first century will find an
2 ever-increasing need for both women and men to share in the
3 fundamental responsibilities for our national life and the
4 blessings that must result from full and equal participation
5 in society, and
6 WHEREAS, there still remain substantial barriers to the
7 full equality of America's Women before our freedom as a
8 nation can be called complete, and
9 WHEREAS, 1998 will be widely recognized and celebrated
10 as the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Movement under
11 the national theme, "Living the Legacy: Women's Rights
12 Movement 1848-1998," NOW, THEREFORE,
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14 Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
15 Florida:
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17 That the House of Representatives pauses in its
18 deliberations to applaud the efforts of all persons involved
19 in the 150-year history of the Women's Rights Movement.
20 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the House of
21 Representatives further calls on educators, government
22 officials, businesses, and all citizens to mark this year of
23 celebration with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and
24 activities that will remember with gratitude those who have
25 contributed to the nation we were envisioned and created to
26 be, where all have by right a position of equality, fairness,
27 justice, and freedom in the society of the United States of
28 America.
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