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President's Proclamation of National Hispanic Heritage Week, 1974 [Proclamation]
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Digitized from Box 1 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 4, 1974
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE WEEK, 1974
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Our country's Hispanic heritage reaches back more than
four centuries. When the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth
Rock, Hispanic civilization was already flourishing in what
is now Florida and New Mexico. Since then the Hispanic
contribution to America has been a consistent and vital in-
fluence in our country's cultural growth.
More than ten million Americans of Hispanic origin
today contribute to our national diversity, enriching the
quality of American life in the arts, the sciences, sports,
religion and the small but important things of everyday
living.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the
United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week be--
ginning September 10, 1974, and ending September 16, 1974,
as National Hispanic Heritage Week. I call upon all the
people of the United States, especially the education com-
munity and those organizations concerned with the protection
of human rights, to observe that week with appropriate cere-
monies and activities.
In celebrating this occasion, I also call upon my fellow
Americans to rededicate themselves to the principle of full
and equal opportunity for all citizens, and to seize upon
the broad spectrum of skills and abilities of those individuals
of Hispanic heritage who have so significantly contributed to
our Nation's growth and prosperity.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourth
day of September, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred seventy-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the one hundred ninety-ninth.
GERALD R. FORD
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