Staff Reports

The Governor of North Carolina has proclaimed March 2010 as “Women’s History Month” in North Carolina and has called upon the citizens of this state to observe and commemorate Women’s History Month. 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of celebrating women’s achievements in the month of March. This year’s theme, “Writing Women Back into History,” seeks to uncover the “hidden” stories of women’s contributions throughout our nation’s past.

A proclamation by the Governor of the state of North Carolina

WHEREAS, in 1980 the President of the United States proclaimed the first National Women’s History Week, which became National Women’s History Month in 1987; and

WHEREAS, the 2010 theme for National Women’s History Month is Writing Women Back into History; and

WHEREAS, in 1774, fifty-one women organized the Edenton Tea Party, one of the earliest political acts taken by North Carolina women in protest of the taxation of the colonies without representation within the British government; and

WHEREAS, women throughout our nation’s history have played key roles in securing voting rights, civil rights, human rights, protecting our natural resources, and in every movement that has helped shape our nation and the world; and

WHEREAS, through their pioneering efforts, women have opened the door for others in the area of business, science, politics, philanthropy and medicine; their achievements are vast and have benefitted the people of North Carolina, our nation and the world; and

WHEREAS, North Carolina women of every race, class, and ethnicity including famed educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown, Scotland-born heroine Flora MacDonald, United States First Lady Dolly Madison, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Gertrude Elion, and Folk School founder Olive D. Campbell, have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of North Carolina in countless recorded and unrecorded ways; and

WHEREAS, March 2010, is the 30th anniversary of Women’s History Month;

Now, therefore, I, Beverly Eaves Perdue, Governor of the State of North Carolina, do hereby proclaim March 2010, as “Women’s History Month” in North Carolina, and call upon the citizens of this State to observe and commemorate Women’s History Month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities and to rediscover the contributions of women in North Carolina, our nation, and the world.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of North Carolina at the Capitol in Raleigh this eighth day of February in the year of our Lord two thousand and ten, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty fourth.