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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