1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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2 2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024)
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3 SENATE CONCURRENT
3 RESOLUTION 18 By: Hicks of the Senate
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5 Ranson of the House
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9 AS INTRODUCED
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10 A Concurrent Resolution applauding and recognizing
10 the many contributions made by Oklahoma women to our
11 Nation; recognizing and celebrating March as national
11 Women’s History Month; and directing distribution.
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15 WHEREAS, Oklahoma women have made historic contributions to the
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16 development, growth, and strength of our state and nation in
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17 countless ways; and
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18 WHEREAS, even though women did not yet have the right to vote,
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19 in 1907, Kate Barnard became the first woman elected to a statewide
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20 office in Oklahoma, and one of the first women elected to a
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21 statewide office in the country; and
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22 WHEREAS, in 1933, Angie Debo received a Ph.D. in history from
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23 the University of Oklahoma, and though she would never hold a
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24 position in a history department at a university because of gender
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 1 discrimination, she became known as Oklahoma’s greatest historian,
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2 writing nine history books, particularly focusing on the history of
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3 Oklahoma, the Tribal Nations, and the relations between them and the
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4 state and federal governments; and
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5 WHEREAS, in 1958, Clara Luper and students from the Oklahoma
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6 City NAACP Youth Council staged the nation’s first nonviolent lunch
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7 counter sit-in at Katz Drug Store; and
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8 WHEREAS, in the 1990s, Oklahoman and NASA Astronaut Shannon
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9 Lucid set records for the most time in space by a woman and then for
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10 the longest-duration space flight by any U.S. astronaut; and
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11 WHEREAS, Oklahoma women have made significant contributions in
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12 other areas as well, including medicine, business, literature, the
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13 arts, and more; and
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14 WHEREAS, Oklahoma joins the rest of the country in observation
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15 of national Women’s History Month during March.
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16 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE OF THE 2ND SESSION
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17 OF THE 59TH OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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18 CONCURRING THERIN:
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19 THAT the Oklahoma State Legislature applauds and recognizes the
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20 many contributions made by Oklahoma women throughout the nation’s
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21 history.
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22 THAT the Oklahoma State Legislature recognizes and celebrates
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23 March as national Women’s History Month.
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 1 THAT a copy of this resolution be distributed to the Oklahoma
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2 Commission on the Status of Women.
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