We all are born free and equal January 2017 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Celebration Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.-AUTHORITY: Public Law 98-144; Public Law 98-399; Proclamation 5431 Established -1986 (President Ronald Reagan) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Emancipation Proclamation Issued 1863 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 24th Amendment Abolished 1964 29 30 31 JANUARY 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ February 2017 National African American History Month FEBRUARY- AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH- AUTHORITY: Executive Order 11478; Public Law 99-244; Proclamation 5443 Negro History Week -1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson. National Black (African American) History Month Established 1986 (President Ronald Reagan) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 Greensboro, NC Sit-in 15th Amendment 1870 1960 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 NAACP Founded Southern Christian 1909 Leadership Conference Est. 1957 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Malcolm X Assassinated 1965 26 27 28 FEBRUARY 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ March 2017 National Women’s History Month MARCH- NATIONAL WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH- AUTHORITY: Public Law 103-22,107 STST. 58; Executive Order 11375 Established 1978 (President Ronald Reagan) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 3rd Civil Rights Act 1875 Freedmen’s Bureau Bill 1865 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Dred Scott Decision Bloody Sunday 1965 Edmund Pettus 1857 Bridge 1965 Exec. Order 10925 1960 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights Restoration March 1965 Act 1988 26 27 28 29 30 31 MARCH 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ April 2017 Take Your Student to Work Day APRIL- TAKE YOUR STUDENT TO WORK DAY (SCHOOL AGES 8-17) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated 1968 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Civil Rights Bill 1866 Civil Rights Act 1968 passed by Congress 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Swann v. Charlotte- Mecklenburg Board of Education 1971 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 APRIL 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ May 2017 National Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month MAY- NATIONAL ASIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE HISTORY MONTH- AUTHORITY: Executive Order 13339 Established 1992 (President George H.W. Bush) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 Freedom Summer Project 1964 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Brown v. Board of Plessy v. Ferguson Education 1954 1896 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 MAY 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ June 2017 Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender Pride Month JUNE- LESBIAN,GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER PRIDE MONTH- AUTHORITY: Executive Order 13087; Proclamation 7316 & 8387 Established 2009 (President Barack Obama) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Medgar Evers Murdered 1963 Loving v. Virginia 1967 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Supreme Court Ruling University of Michigan Law School 1992 25 26 27 28 29 30 JUNE 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ July 2017 USA, Independence Day, July 4th Declaration of Independence - July 4, 1776 (President George Washington) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Civil Rights Act 1964 Declaration of Independence 1776 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 14th Amendment 1868 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 JULY 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ August 2017 Women’s Equality Day, August 26 Joint Resolution of Congress – 1971; Proclamation 1972 (President Richard Nixon) AUGUST -26TH DAY OF RECOGNITION Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 Three Civil Rights Workers were Murdered 1964 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Voting Rights Act 1965 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Women’s Equality Day Observed 27 28 29 30 31 Emmett Till The March on Thurgood Marshall Murdered 1955 Washington 1963 Appointed US Supreme Court 1967 AUGUST 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ September 2017 Hispanic Heritage Month OBSERVANCE- SEPTEMBER 15- OCTOBER 15 NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH- AUTHORITY: Executive Order 13230 Established 1988 (President Ronald Reagan) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 Little Rock Nine 1957 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 4 Girls Killed Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing Birmingham, AL 1963 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Executive Order 11246 Affirmative Action 1965 SEPTEMBER 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ October 2017 National Disability Employment Awareness Month OCTOBER- NATIONAL DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS MONTH - Executive Order 13187 Established 2001 (President George W. Bush) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 James Meredith Enrolled in Univ. of Mississippi 1962 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. received Nobel Peace Prize 1964 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 OCTOBER 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ November 2017 National American Indian/Alaska Native Heritage Month NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN / ALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE MONTH - Executive Order 13270; Proclamation 6230 Established 1990 (President George H.W. Bush) Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 NOVEMBER 2017 NOTE________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ December 2017 Office of Civil Rights, Represents EEO POLICY STATEMENT: The Farm Service Agency
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