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Every year, March is designated Women’s History Month by presidential proclamation. The month is set aside to honor women’s contributions in American history.

Did You Know? Women’s History Month started as Women’s History Week . . .

Women’s History Month began as a local celebration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women planned and executed a “Women’s History Week” celebration in 1978. The organizers selected the week of March 8 to correspond with International Women’s Day. The movement spread across the country as other communities initiated their own Women’s History Week celebrations the following year.

In 1980, a consortium of women’s groups and historians—led by the National Women’s History Project (now the National Women's History Alliance)—successfully lobbied for national recognition. In February 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th,1980 as National Women’s History Week.

https://www.womenshistory.org/womens-history/womens-history-month

March is #WomensHistoryMonth! All month, 60-Second Civics will explain the struggle for equal rights for women & how our Constitution & laws evolved to make our nation a more representative democracy. In this episode, we briefly trace the struggle of women for equal voting rights.

https://x.com/60SecondCivics/status/1896551131112759495

During Women's History Month, we honor Puerto Rican activist Lolita Lebrón, who fought for Puerto Rico's freedom. She led the 1954 Capitol attack for independence, and her cry, "¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!" represents the ongoing fight for freedom.

#WomensHistoryMonth #PuertoRico

Ahavati said:During Women's History Month, we honor Puerto Rican activist Lolita Lebrón, who fought for Puerto Rico's freedom. She led the 1954 Capitol attack for independence, and her cry, "¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!" represents the ongoing fight for freedom.

#WomensHistoryMonth #PuertoRico

Fascinating. Puerto Rico's 1950 population was a bit over two million so there's a chance she ran in the same circles as Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola, the central characters in the 1950 attempt on Harry Truman's life, in a Washinton D.C. shootout depicted in...AMERICAN GUNFIGHT: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman-and the shootout that stopped it, by Stephen hunter and John Bainbridge Jr. ISBN-13 978-0-7432-6068-8.

Been a few years since I read it, but my main takeaway was that not every Puerto Rican wanted to be a part of the U.S.