INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Conaway
At the request of: Rosa Parks December 1 Anniversary Nationwide "Day of Absence"
Address: c/o Sharon Ceci & Eric Easton, Baltimore Citywide Coordinating Committee
426 East 31st Street, Baltimore Maryland 21218
Telephone: 410-218-4835
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Proclaiming 2005 as Rosa Parks Year in Baltimore City and Celebrating the December 1 Anniversary Nationwide "Day of Absence"
FOR the purpose of proclaiming 2005 as Rosa Parks Year in Baltimore City and joining the more than 1,000 national and local organizations sponsoring the Rosa Parks nationwide "Day of Absence" in encouraging all public and private businesses and educational institutions located in Baltimore City on December 1, 2005, to either close or allow their workers or attendees time off to attend Rosa Park Commemoration events taking place during the normal business hours without sanctions.
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WHEREAS, Rosa Louise McCauley was born February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a school teacher; and
WHEREAS, At the age of 11 she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls and later at the Alabama State Teachers College and at 20 married Raymond Parks, a barber; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks, on December 1,1955, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, resulting in her arrest; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks' defiance triggered the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott and earned her the title of Mother of the Civil Rights Movement; and
WHEREAS, The 382-day boycott introduced the world to Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was President of the Montgomery Improvement Association and the Montgomery Bus Boycott spokesperson; and
WHEREAS, The Federal District Court, on June 4, 1956, ruled bus segregation unconstitutional; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks and her husband, Raymond moved to Detroit in 1957, where Mrs. Parks served on the staff of United States Representative John Conyers; and
WHEREAS, The Southern Christian Leadership Council later established an annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award in her honor; and
WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development to offer guidance to young African Americans; and
WHEREAS, President Clinton presented Mrs. Parks with the Congressional Medal of Freedom in 1995; and
WHEREAS, Mrs Parks spend her last years in Detroit, where she died on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That this Body proclaims 2005 as Rosa Parks Year in Baltimore City and joins the more than 1,000 national and local organizations sponsoring the Rosa Parks nationwide "Day of Absence" in encouraging all public and private businesses and educational institutions located in Baltimore City on December 1, 2005, to either close or allow their workers or attendees time off to attend Rosa Park Commemoration events taking place during the normal business hours without sanctions.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be sent to the Mayor, the family of Rosa Parks, the Baltimore City Coordinating Committee of the December 1 Anniversary Nationwide "Day of Absence", the Labor Commissioner, and the Mayor's Legislative Liaison to the City Council.
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