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DESCRIPTION:Oldest in the Nation, Original Legislation Establishing California Rosa 
 Parks Day honoring the birth and lifetime of service reduced to 1 day, just 
 as basic human dignity for people of African Descent reduced again.  
 Freedom is never free and each generation must hold the line while, 
 yearning for a greater measure of freedom.  2022 we honor the birth of Rosa 
 Parks and lift up the prism of #Womanity.\n\nACR 116, Wesson. Rosa Parks 
 Day.\n\nThis measure would proclaim Rosa Park's birthday, Friday, February 
 4, 2000, and the first Monday following February 4 of each subsequent year, 
 as Rosa Parks Day in California.\n\nWHEREAS, Rosa Parks was born on 
 February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, the first child of James and Leona 
 (Edwards) McCauley; and\n\nWHEREAS, Rosa Louise McCauley married Raymond 
 Parks on December 18, 1932; and\n\nWHEREAS, Rosa Parks was arrested on 
 December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat 
 on a bus to a white man, and her stand for equal rights became legendary; 
 and\n\nWHEREAS, Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to comply with Montgomery' 
 s segregation law was the impetus for a boycott of Montgomery buses, led by 
 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by approximately 42,000 African Americans for 
 381 days; and\n\nWHEREAS, On November 13, 1956, the United States Supreme 
 Court ruled that Montgomery's segregation law was unconstitutional, and on 
 December 20, 1956, Montgomery officials were ordered to desegregate buses; 
 and\n\nWHEREAS, Rosa Parks is honored as the "Mother of the Modern Day 
 Civil Rights Movement," because her refusal to surrender her seat in 
 compliance with Montgomery's segregation law inspired the civil rights 
 movement, which has resulted in the breakdown of numerous legal barriers 
 and the lessening of profound discrimination against African Americans in 
 this country; and\n\nWHEREAS, The courage and conviction of Rosa Parks laid 
 the foundation for equal rights for all Americans and for the Civil\nRights 
 Act of 1964; and\n\nWHEREAS, Rosa Parks was the first woman to join the 
 Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and was an active volunteer for the 
 Montgomery Voters League; and\n\nWHEREAS, Rosa Parks co-founded the Rosa 
 and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development in 1987 with Elaine Easton 
 Steele to motivate and direct youth to achieve their highest potential 
 through the "Pathways to Freedom" program; and\n\nWHEREAS, Rosa Parks is 
 the recipient of many awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 
 the nation's highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, 
 the highest honor Congress can bestow upon a civilian, and the first 
 International Freedom Conductor Award from the National Underground 
 Railroad Freedom Center, among many other awards and honors; 
 and\n\nWHEREAS, Rosa Parks has dedicated her life to the cause of human 
 rights and truly embodies the love of humanity and freedom; now, therefore, 
 be it\n\nResolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate 
 thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California\nhereby 
 declares her birthday, Friday, February 4, 2000, and the first Monday 
 following February 4 of each subsequent year, as Rosa Parks Day and urges 
 all Californians to pay homage to this great American woman.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/21/18847478.php
SUMMARY:2022 Rosa Parks Day in California Kickoff Celebration
LOCATION:SMICS Bar 12th and K Street\nSacramento, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/01/21/18847478.php
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