#WomensHistoryMonth

March is Women’s History Month!
Pictured: Top row, l-r: Hedy Lamarr, Sonia Sotomayor, Sojourner Truth, Carrie Chapman Catt, Harriet Tubman, Laverne Cox, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chloe Kim, Georgia O’Keefe
Middle row, l-r: Malala Yousafzai, Sandra Day O’Connor, Pura Belpré, Shirley Chisholm, Zora Neale Hurston, Anne Frank, Sally Ride, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joycelyn Elders, Marie Curie
Bottom row, l-r: Maya Angelou, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Abigail Adams, Beyoncé, Gloria Steinem, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Maria Tallchief, Susan B. Anthony
“Women’s History Month” by Liesl Werner Thomas is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as ‘Women’s History Week.’ Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as ‘Women’s History Week.’ In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as ‘Women’s History Month.’ Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as ‘Women’s History Month.’ These proclamations celebrate the contributions women have made to the United States and recognize the specific achievements women have made over the course of American history in a variety of fields,”

according to womenshistorymonth.gov.

The ParkHSLib celebrates with social media posts of information about women’s history, links to articles about women who have made a difference, and poems by women authors on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, as well as displays of books by women authors throughout the library. Check them out!

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