Proclamation: Women’s Equality Day
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, from the early 1800’s women in the United States have continuously worked to gain full rights and privileges – public and private, legal and institutional – as citizens of the United States; and
WHEREAS, the Women’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848 declared “We hold these truths to be self-evident: all men and women are created equal” and insisted that “women have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States;” and
WHEREAS, women and men of all races persisted for nearly a century, struggling against violence and discrimination, to win the right of women to vote; and
WHEREAS, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1920, states “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex”; and
WHEREAS, Congress, in 1973, designated August 26, the date the Nineteenth Amendment was certified, as Women’s Equality Day; and
WHEREAS, Women’s Equality Day affords Sudbury the opportunity to highlight the importance of women’s work toward achieving the goal of equal rights and opportunity; now therefore be it
RESOLVED that the Sudbury Select Board hereby recognizes and commemorates Women’s Equality Day, August 26th, as a celebration of the importance of the women’s suffrage movement and the ongoing efforts to secure and expand equal rights, full civic inclusion and human dignity to all citizens of the United States.
Signed this 13th day of August in the year two thousand twenty-four.
SELECT BOARD
Jennifer S. Roberts, Chair
Daniel E. Carty, Vice-Chair
Janie W. Dretler
Lisa V. Kouchakdjian
Charles G. Russo
