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10105315D
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 332
Offered February 23, 2010
Commending the Women's Suffrage Museum and the Workhouse Arts Center.
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Patrons—Albo and McClellan; Senator: Barker
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WHEREAS, the Women's Suffrage Museum and the Workhouse Arts Center are recognized in 2010 for their many efforts to portray the equal rights movement in Virginia and to preserve the history and culture of the Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, women of every race, class, and ethnic background have made historic contributions to the growth and strength of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation in countless recorded and unrecorded ways; and

WHEREAS, women have played and continue to play a critical economic, cultural, and social role in every sphere of life of the Commonwealth and the nation by constituting a significant portion of the labor force working inside and outside the home; and

WHEREAS, Virginia women have become leaders in politics, law, medicine, literature, education, economics, science and technology, and social change; and

WHEREAS, women of every race, class, and ethnic background served as leaders at the forefront of every major event in American history; and

WHEREAS, the contributions of women throughout history have often been overlooked and undervalued; and

WHEREAS, women in the Commonwealth played a significant, pivotal, and often unrecognized role in women’s struggle to acquire the vote, including the incarceration of the suffragists at the Occoquan Workhouse in Fairfax County, which helped rally the country to support the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly commend the Women's Suffrage Museum and the Workhouse Arts Center for their many efforts to increase awareness of the important role women have played in the prosperity and well-being of the Commonwealth in the past and will continue to play in the future; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the Lorton Arts Foundation on behalf of the Women's Suffrage Museum and the Workhouse Arts Center as an expression of the General Assembly’s gratitude for the organization’s commitment to preserve the history of the courageous individuals who fought for equal rights for all women.