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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks a lot Suzanne for enlightening us about “<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How Did March Come to Be Women's History Month?” Two thumbs up!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Can’t wait to meet our NFB female leaders who made a significant impact in the NFB and get empowered from reading their stories! </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Have a great day.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk519269616"></a><a name="_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616">Ali Benmerzouga</span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616">NFB Member – Cleveland Chapter, Board Member,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616">Chair of Cleveland Chapter Legislative Committee,</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616">Cell Phone - 440-590-0315.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616">Please Visit and like our Chapter’s Facebook Page:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616"></span></span><a href="https://m.facebook.com/NationalFederationOfTheBlindOfOhioClevelandChapter/"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://m.facebook.com/NationalFederationOfTheBlindOfOhioClevelandChapter/</span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616"></span></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk515938645"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk519269616"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic
that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
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<b>From:</b> Suzanne Turner <smturner.234@gmail.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, March 2, 2019 10:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NFBOH-Cleveland@nfbnet.org; 'Lisa Bostick' <lbostick04@jcu.edu>; Victory71351@AOL.COM; AlexisTyson2000@Yahoo.com; wturner@clevelandsightcenter.org; 'Edgarsfarm' <edgarsfarm@aol.com>; 'Sandra Krems' <slkrems@yahoo.com>; Lelinda@roadrunner.com; Campbelllegal87@gmail.com;
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bdowdy1983@gmail.com; MichaelSwinney05@gmail.com; william.h.turner@ssa.gov; Williamsjoann@outlook.com; lmr.upshaw@gmail.com; 'kiana hill' <kiah976@att.net>; Dr.Carolyn.Peters@gmail.com; 'Dave Bertsch' <dwbertsch@hotmail.com>; patrinkle@icloud.com; octaviaealy@hotmail.com;
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barbara.pierce9366@gmail.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> smturner.234@gmail.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> The National Federation of the Blind of Ohio, Cleveland Chapter Celebrate Women History Month<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">CELEBRATE WOMEN HISTORY MONTH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">During March, the Cleveland Chapter will introduce powerful and influential Women celebrating Women History Month. Each week, you will come familiar with
two individuals who have made a significant impact as a female leader in the National Federation of the Blind. Some you will know, but others you may not. Hopefully, you will have an opportunity to meet them in the future. Therefore, I highly encourage you
to stay tuned into all of Cleveland’s communication outlets for their empowering stories.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Read Below:
</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">How Did March Come to Be Women's History Month?</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bottom of Form</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">U.S. Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg honored for Women's History Month, 2015. Allison Shelley/Getty Images
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">by <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/jone-johnson-lewis-3524783">
Jone Johnson Lewis</a> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jone Johnson Lewis has a Master of Divinity, and is a humanist clergy member and certified transformational coach. She has been involved in the women's movement since the late 1960s.
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Updated February 28, 2019
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> On February 28, 1980, President Jimmy Carter wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:5.0pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"From the first settlers who came to our shores, from the first American Indian families who befriended them, men
and women have worked together to build this Nation. Too often, the women were unsung and sometimes their contributions went unnoticed."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">These words, part of his message establishing the first Women's History Week in 1980, marked the beginning of a new chapter in American history; one in which recognition of women and
their work, and the promotion of their rights became a more explicit concern. That initial effort was expanded in 1987, when March was designated as
<a href="https://womenshistorymonth.gov/" target="_blank">Women's History Month</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Beginning: Women's History Week
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> In 1978 in California, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women began a "Women's History Week" celebration. The week was chosen to coincide
with <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/international-womens-day-3529400">International Women's Day,</a> March 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The response was positive. Schools began to host their own Women's History Week programs. The next year, leaders from the California group shared their project at a Women's History
Institute at Sarah Lawrence College. Other participants not only determined to begin their own local Women's History Week projects, but agreed to support an effort to have Congress declare a national Women's History Week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> Three years later, the United States Congress passed a resolution establishing National Women's History Week, which had ample bipartisan support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> This recognition encouraged even wider participation in Women's History Week. Schools focused on special projects and exhibitions honoring women. Organizations sponsored talks
on women's history. The <a href="http://www.nwhp.org/" target="_blank">National Women's History Project</a> began distributing materials specifically designed to support Women's History Week, as well as materials to enhance the teaching of history through
the year, to include notable women and women's experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Women's History Month
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> In 1987, at the request of the National Women's History Project, Congress expanded the week to a month, and the U.S. Congress has issued a resolution every year since then, with
wide support, for Women's History Month. The U.S. President has issued each year a proclamation of Women's History Month.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">To further extend the inclusion of women's history in the history curriculum (and in everyday consciousness of history), the President's Commission on the Celebration of Women in History
in America met through the 1990s. One result has been the effort towards establishing a
<a href="https://www.nwhm.org/" target="_blank">National Museum of Women's History</a> for the Washington, D.C., area, where it would join other museums such as the American History Museum.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> The purpose of Women's History Month is to increase consciousness and knowledge of women's history: to take one month of the year to remember the contributions of notable and
ordinary women, in hopes that the day will soon come when it's impossible to teach or learn history without remembering these contributions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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