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DESCRIPTION:Celebrating the 24th Anniversary of the oldest known official Rosa Parks 
 Day in America.\n\nTogether, we honor Auntie Rosie, Patron Saint of the 
 Women's Political Council of Montgomery, Alabama and discover the "hidden 
 figures" lifting as we climb.  Holding her high, the Mother of the US Civil 
 Rights Movement, paid the price and today we begin honoring the team.\n\nOn 
 February 4, 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama to 
 parents James McCauley and Leona Edwards. Her father was employed as a 
 carpenter and her mother as a teacher. In her younger years she was sick 
 much of the time, and as a result, was a small child. Her parents 
 eventually separated and her mother took her and her brother and moved to 
 Pine Level, a town adjacent to Montgomery, Alabama. There Rosa spent the 
 rest of her childhood on her grandparents’ farm.\n\nHer childhood in 
 Montgomery helped her to develop strong roots in the African Methodist 
 Episcopal Church. Rosa did not attend a public school until the age of 
 eleven. Before that, she was home schooled by her mother. At age eleven she 
 attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery, where she took 
 various vocational and academic courses. She began laboratory school for 
 her secondary education, but never completed it because she was forced to 
 drop out to care for her ailing grandmother.\n\nRosa’s childhood was 
 greatly influenced by the Jim Crow laws of the South, which segregated 
 white people from black people in almost every part of their daily lives. 
 This included public restrooms, drinking fountains, education and 
 transportation. For the children attending school, there was busing for the 
 white children to their school, but the black children were required to 
 walk to another school. \n\nPublic transportation followed this line of 
 segregation except that blacks were allowed on the bus as long as they sat 
 in the back, apart from the whites.\n\nToday, we celebrate Transit Equity 
 and remember the Women's Political Council of Montgomery, Alabama that made 
 it so...\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/01/03/18861556.php
SUMMARY:24th Annual Rosa Parks Day Celebration - Island Empire - San Bernardino, California
LOCATION:Rosa Parks Memorial Building - Courtyard\nSan Bernardino, California 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/01/03/18861556.php
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