45 Years Later: Jimmy Carter’s Women’s History Call Still Echoes in the Fight for Equality.
(ThyBlackMan.com) Forty-five years ago, President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation designating March 2-8, 1980, as National Women’s History Week. The final day of that period was International Women’s Day, which had already been celebrated in many countries for much of the 20th century and recognized by the United Nations as a day to acknowledge women’s contributions and call for women’s economic, political and civil rights. American women historians, community leaders and advocates believed it was past time for […]