HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 01011997 - 1997-036 r
IN THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of Proclaiming the Resolution No. 97/36
Month of February as "Black History
Month" in Contra Costa County.
WHEREAS African Americans helped found the Nation in countless
recorded and unrecorded ways as servants, slaves, industrial
workers, teachers, reformers, soldiers and pioneers; and
WHEREAS African Americans played and continue to play a
critical economic, cultural and social role in every sphere of our
Nation's life by constituting a significant portion of the labor
force working in and outside of the home; and
WHEREAS African Americans served as early leaders in the
forefront of every major progressive social movement, not only to
secure their own right to vote and be citizens and be provided
equal opportunity, but also in the emancipation movement, the .. _
industrial labor union movement, and the civil rights movement; and
WHEREAS African Americans in Contra Costa County have
contributed to its development and progress in various roles and
levels of responsibility; and
WHEREAS despite these contributions, the role of African
Americans in history has been consistently overlooked and
undervalued in the body of American history:
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of
Contra Costa County, California, hereby PROCLAIM the month of
February 1997 as "Black History Month" in Contra Costa County.
PASSED on January 28, 1996 by unanimous vote of the Board
members present.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy
of a resolution on the minutes of this Board of Supervisors on the
aforesaid date.
Um2ev' ,
Mark DeSaulnier, Chairman
District IV
Jim Rogers, District I Ga#le U lkema, strict II
Donna Gerbe , D strict IIICa amilla, District V
Witness my hand and the Seal of the
Board of Supervisors affixed this
28th day of January, 1997 .
Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and County Administrator.
By Deputy Clerk
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