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DESCRIPTION:11:30 am, Monday, February 5, 2024\nCalifornia Rosa Parks Day - Transit 
 Equity\nSacramento Regional Transit - Historic Ole Blue "Rosa Parks 
 Bus"\nHighlighting the Women "Hidden Figures" of the Montgomery Bus 
 Boycott\n\n(Sacramento, California) Together, we honor the living legacy of 
 Auntie Rosie on her birthday. \n\nMrs. Rosa Parks, will forever be the 
 Patron Saint of the Women's Political Council of Montgomery, Alabama as we 
 share the "hidden figures" who long planned the Montgomery Bus Boycott to 
 desegregate separate and unequal public accommodations in the "Heart of 
 Dixie."\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 
 Rosa was sick much of the time, and as a result, was a small, homeschooled 
 child.  Her parents separated, and her mother moved Rosa and her younger 
 brother Sylvester to Pine Level, Alabama, a rural agriculture town adjacent 
 to Montgomery, Alabama.  Rosa spent the early years of her childhood on her 
 grandparents’ family farm. \n\nHer early childhood experiences helped her 
 to develop a strong spirt and set deep roots in the African Methodist 
 Episcopal Church.  Rosa did not attend a public school until the age of 
 eleven, when she attended the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery, 
 where she excelled in vocational and academic courses.  Young Rosa began 
 laboratory school for her secondary education, but never completed the 
 coursework 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 school.\n\nPublic 
 transportation throughout the Deep South and much of America followed this 
 line of racial segregation where "Colored" people were allowed on the bus 
 to pay their fair, exit the bus and sit in the back "Colored Section" 
 separated from reserved "White only" front seating.\n\nToday, we celebrate 
 the oldest known official Rosa Parks Day established by the California 
 State Legislature on February 4, 2000 and remember "hidden figures" from 
 the Women's Political Council of Montgomery, Alabama who first began the 
 journey towards Transit Equity.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/01/13/18861977.php
SUMMARY:24th Annual, California Rosa Parks Day - Transit Equity - Press Conference
LOCATION:California State Capitol - Capitol Mall & 10th Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/01/13/18861977.php
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