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Here are 10 surprising facts about Women’s History Month. ... Women’s History Month started as a local week . Women’s History Month began as a local week-long celebration in Santa Rosa, ...
2. The day became Women's History Week in 1978. An education task force in Sonoma County, California kicked off Women's History Week in 1978 on March 8, International Women's Day, according to the ...
The following is a list of notable month-long observances, recurrent months that are used by various governments, groups and organizations to raise awareness of an issue, commemorate a group or event, or celebrate something.
Their efforts came to fruition when President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 2-8, 1980 as National Women’s History Week.
The first commemorative month was the US Black History Month, which first was commemorated at Kent State University from January 2 to February 28, 1970, [2] and recognized by President Gerald Ford in 1976, during the celebration of the United States Bicentennial. [3] The observance had begun at a smaller scale in 1926 as "Negro History Week".
[10] Throughout the next several years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as Women's History Week. [10] Schools across the country also began to have their own local celebrations of Women's History Week and even Women's History Month. By 1986, fourteen states had declared March as Women's History Month. [9]
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According to Parry, "Negro History Week" began through the Association for the Study of African American History and Life, founded by scholar, teacher, and activist Carter G. Woodson in 1915.