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DESCRIPTION:11:30 am, Tuesday, February 4, 2025\nCalifornia Rosa Parks Day - 
 Highlighting the Women “Hidden Figures” of the Montgomery Bus Boycott - 
 SacRT - Historic Ole  \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. \n\nHer 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 200+ acre’ family farm. 
 \n\nHer early childhood experiences helped her to develop a strong spirt 
 and set deep roots in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. \n\nRosa 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. \n\nYoung 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 Racial Segregation - “Jim Crow” 
 laws of the South, which segregated white people from black people in 
 almost every part of their daily lives. \n\nThis 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 organized 
 the effort, today known as Transit Equity.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/02/01/18872827.php
SUMMARY:25th Anniversary Rosa Parks Day in CA: From Ending Racial Segregation to Transit Equity
LOCATION:California State Capitol \n10th & Capitol Mall
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/02/01/18872827.php
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