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DESCRIPTION:Beginning on February 2, 2000, Rosa Parks Day in California was officially 
 signed into law by Secretary of State Bill Jones.\n\nThis special official 
 recognition is the oldest in the United States of America.\n\nThe original 
 Legislation - California Rosa Parks Day - honors the birth, lifetime of 
 service and high culture human dignity of our “Patron Saint” of the 
 Montgomery Women’s Political Council.  \n\nFreedom is never free and each 
 generation must hold the line while, yearning for a greater measure of 
 freedom. \n\n2023 we continue to honor the story of the birth of Rosa Parks 
 and lift up the prism of #Womanity for our world to appreciate and 
 honor.\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 Rights 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 hereby 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/2023/01/04/18853679.php
SUMMARY:23rd Annual Rosa Parks Day in California and Transit Equity Day Kickoff Celebration
LOCATION:SMICS Bar\n12th & K st.\nSacramento, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/01/04/18853679.php
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