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SENATE00Enrolled RESOLUTIONSR NO.3 01 Proclaiming February 2017 as Black History Month.

302 01_______________ Proclaiming03 FebruaryBE 2017IT asRESOLVED BlackBY HistoryTHE Month.SENATE:

0204 BEWHEREAS, ITin RESOLVED1926, BYa THEweek SENATE:honoring black history was first established by Dr.

0305 WHEREAS,Carter inG. 1926, a week honoring black history was first established by Dr.

04Woodson Carterto G.coincide with the birth week shared by President Abraham Lincoln and 06 abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass;

Woodson to coincide with the birth week shared by President Abraham Lincoln and 0507 abolitionistWHEREAS leaderDr. Frederick Douglass;

and 06 WHEREAS Dr.

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If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say 0809 to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy'";

and 0910 WHEREAS, in 1976, in honor of the nation's bicentennial, President Gerald R.

Ford 1011 expanded the celebration of Black History Week to Black History Month;

and 1112 WHEREAS African Americans are woven into the fabric of this nation and contribute 1213 to the attributes that make the nation strong and just, despite the nation's history of their 1314 enslavement and unjust treatment;

and 1415 WHEREAS the contributions African Americans have made to building the State of 1516 Alaska--from the hundreds of members of Company L, 24th Infantry, United States Army, 1617 who were stationed at Dyea and Skagway during the Gold Rush, to the engineers who carved the Alaska-Canada (ALCAN) Highway through remote and desolate land--often go 02 unrecognized;