PRINTER'S NO. 220
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
55
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY McCLINTON, MILLARD, KIRKLAND, KORTZ, READSHAW,
DONATUCCI, BURNS, A. DAVIS, HILL-EVANS, BIZZARRO, MURT,
SCHLOSSBERG, BERNSTINE, ROTHMAN, CALTAGIRONE, KENYATTA,
LONGIETTI, EVERETT, HARRIS, GOODMAN, MIZGORSKI, DeLUCA,
OBERLANDER, VITALI, SAINATO, ISAACSON, PASHINSKI, BROWN,
IRVIN, DiGIROLAMO, McNEILL, FEE, JOZWIAK, FREEMAN, DEASY,
HENNESSEY, MENTZER, STURLA, INNAMORATO, NEILSON, SCHWEYER AND
ROEBUCK, JANUARY 29, 2019
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JANUARY 29, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Designating February 4, 2019, as "Rosa Parks Remembrance Day" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama,
on February 4, 1913, and married civil rights activist Raymond
Parks on December 18, 1932; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks became active in the American Civil
Rights Movement in 1943 and served as secretary of the
Montgomery Chapter of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks gained national recognition when she
refused to give up her seat in the colored section on a
Montgomery city bus to a white man and was arrested, spurring a
381-day boycott by African Americans of the Montgomery bus
system; and
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WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks became known as the "Mother of the Civil
Rights Movement" when her 1956 lawsuit resulted in the landmark
United States Supreme Court decision that segregated bus service
was unconstitutional and laid the groundwork for repealing
segregation laws; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks continued her service to society in
Detroit, Michigan, where she worked in the office of United
States Representative John Conyers, Jr., as a legislative aide
from 1965 to 1988; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks lived in Detroit, Michigan, from 1957
until her death on October 24, 2005; and
WHEREAS, For her unparalleled pursuit of justice and
equality, Mrs. Parks was awarded the NAACP's highest honor, the
Spingarn Medal, in 1979, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent
Peace Prize in 1980, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996
and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999; and
WHEREAS, Upon her death, Mrs. Parks became the first woman in
the nation's history to lie in honor at the United States
Capitol Rotunda; and
WHEREAS, In February 2013, hundreds of people and the
political elite gathered to celebrate the life of the late Rosa
Parks on what would have been her 100th birthday by unveiling a
postage stamp in her honor just steps away from the Alabama bus
on which she stared down segregation nearly 60 years ago;
therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives designate
February 4, 2019, as "Rosa Parks Remembrance Day" in
Pennsylvania.
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