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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
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IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
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JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2013 | |
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H O U S E R E S O L U T I O N | |
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HONORING ROSA PARKS AND CELEBRATING DECEMBER 1ST OF 2013 AS "ROSA | |
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PARKS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY" AND URGING RIPTA TO MAKE PUBLIC | |
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TRANSPORTATION FREE EVERY DECEMBER 1ST IN HER HONOR | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Diaz, Williams, Abney, Hull, and Almeida | |
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Date Introduced: January 31, 2013 | |
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Referred To: House read and passed | |
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WHEREAS, Rosa Louise McCauley was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to |
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James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a school teacher; and |
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WHEREAS, February 4th of 2013 would have been her 100th birthday; and |
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WHEREAS, At the age of 11 she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls |
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and later at Alabama State Teachers College. At twenty, Rosa married a barber named Raymond |
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Parks; and |
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WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks, on December 1, 1955, refused to give up her bus seat to a white |
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passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, resulting in her arrest. Her defiance triggered the famous |
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Montgomery Bus Boycott and earned her the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement"; and |
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WHEREAS, The 382-day boycott introduced the world to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther |
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King, Jr. who was President of the Montgomery Improvement Association and the boycott's |
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spokesperson; and |
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WHEREAS, The Federal District Court on June 4, 1956, ruled bus segregation |
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unconstitutional thanks to the bravery of Rosa Parks; and |
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WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks and her husband Raymond Parks moved to Detroit, Michigan in |
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1957, where Mrs. Parks served on the staff of United States Congressman John Conyers; and |
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WHEREAS, The Southern Christian Leadership Council later established an annual Rosa |
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Parks Freedom Award in her honor; and |
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WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self- |
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Development to offer guidance to young African-Americans; and |
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WHEREAS, President Clinton presented Mrs. Parks with the Congressional Gold Medal |
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of Honor in 1995 for her many sacrifices on behalf of advancing the cause of human rights for all; |
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and |
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WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks spent her last years in Detroit, where she died on October 24, |
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2005, at the age of 92; now, therefore be it |
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RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and |
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Providence Plantations hereby salutes and honors Rosa Parks as a hero in the fight for freedom |
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and equality on the 100th anniversary of her birth; and be it further |
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RESOLVED, That this House hereby reaffirms December 1st of 2013 and every |
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December 1st thereafter, to be "Rosa Parks Human Rights Day"; and be it further |
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RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island and |
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Providence Plantations hereby urges RIPTA to make public transportation free every December |
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1st; and be it further |
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RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and he hereby is authorized and directed to |
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transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the Directors of the NAACP and RIPTA. |
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