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DESCRIPTION:26th Annual, Rosa Parks Day in California was officially passed by our 
 California State Legislature and signed into law by Secretary of State on 
 Friday, February 4, 2000.\n\nThis special official recognition is one 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\nMonday, 
 February 9, 2026 we continue to honor the legacy of Rosa Louise McCauley 
 Parks and lift up the prism of #Womanity for our world to appreciate and 
 honor Women of Courage today.\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/2026/01/04/18882569.php
SUMMARY:26th Annual Rosa Parks Day in California
LOCATION:California State Capitol - West Steps\n10th & Capitol Mall\nSacramento, 
 California 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/04/18882569.php
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