City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0105R

• File #: 05-0105R
• Version: 0
• Name: Proclaiming 2005 as Rosa Parks Year in Baltimore City and Celebrating the December 1 Anniversary Nationwide "Day of Absence"
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 11/7/2005
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 11/21/2005
• Title: 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.
• Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, President Young, Kenneth Harris, James B. Kraft, Mary Pat Clarke, Stephanie Rawlings Blake, Keiffer Mitchell, Helen L. Holton, Paula Johnson Branch, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Robert Curran
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/21/2005	0	City Council	Adopted as Amended
11/16/2005	0	Education, Housing, Health and Human Services	Recommended Favorably with Amendment	Pass
11/7/2005	0	City Council	Introduced
11/7/2005	0	City Council	Assigned
11/7/2005	0	Education, Housing, Health and Human Services	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

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
Title
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, ...