Tthe topic of "women's history" was largely missing from the general public's consciousness, before the seventies.

To address this situation, the "Education Task Force" of the Sonoma County (State of California) Commission on the "Status of Women" initiated a "Women's History Week" celebration in 1978 and chose the week of March 8 to coincide with "International Women's Day."

Women's History Images: "Women of Protest," ca. 1920.  Photographs from Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

The celebration was met with wide-spread positive feedback, and schools began to host their own Women's History Week programs.

That next year, in 1979, various leaders from the California group shared their project at a Women's History Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.

Women's History Images: During her aviation career, from the 1930s through the 1960s, Jacqueline Cochran (-1980) set more speed and altitude records than any contemporary pilot, male or female, and was the first woman to break the sound barrier.  During World War II, she was instrumental in formation of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots.

Other participants not only became determined to begin their own local Women's History Week projects but also agreed to support an effort to have Congress declare a national Women's History Week.
 
A few years after, in 1981, Orrin Hatch (Repbublican, State of Utah) and Barbara Mikulski (Democrat, State of Maryland) co-sponsored the first Joint Congressional Resolution proclaiming a "Women's History Week."
 
In 1987, the National Women's History Project petitioned Congress to expand the celebration to the entire month of March.  Since then, the National Women's History Month Resolution has been approved every year with bipartisan support in both the House and Senate.

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Utah's First State Flag Found After 100+ Years

Utah's first state flag has been found, after being lost for more than 100 years!

According to the Deseret News, the flag was "hastily" made back in 1903 when it was needed for a parade of states at the St. Louis World's Fair.

In 2008, more than 100 years later, Ronald Fox (one of 5 authors for our blog- flag-post.com), an avid history buff, found a photograph of the flag, embroidered with white thread. But the actual flag was nowhere to be found... 

Flag historians, enthusiasts and curators and observe Utah's first state flag, after being lost for more than 100 years.

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