WHEREAS, Women's Equality Day was established by a joint act of Congress in 1971, to recognize each year on August 26th the anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, recognizing the right of women to vote; and

WHEREAS, the 19th Amendment marked the culmination of 72 years of a peaceful civil rights movement that began with the world's first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848; and

WHEREAS, the Women’s Suffrage Movement was a peaceful, non-violent civil rights movement which fought to bring our Constitution into harmony with the natural right of all persons to equal treatment and enfranchisement under the law; and

WHEREAS, the struggle continues in our community, in our nation, and the world over, for equal rights and equal treatment for all persons.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Leon County Board of County Commissioners that August 26, 2003, be hereby known as

in Leon County, Florida, in commemoration of that day in 1920, on which the natural right of American women to vote was finally recognized in the United States Constitution, and in recognition of the work that remains to be done to ensure that the natural rights of all persons to enfranchisement and all of the blessings of liberty are duly protected, in full and equal measure, under law.

DATED THIS 26^th DAY OF AUGUST, A.D., 2003.