Friday, March 14, 2008

Girls Rock!




We are celebrating Women's History Month here in the Children's Department at Main with a display of important women of our times.






Did you know that Eleanor Roosevelt was a delegate to the United Nations general assembly, specializing in humanitarian, social, and cultural issues. Did you know that Maya Angelou wrote books which were nominated for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and that she recited the poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993? Did you know that Aung San Suu Kyi is the leader of the National League for Democracy in Burma, and a noted prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistence?



- taken from Wikipedia