PRINTER'S NO. 371
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
71
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY McCLINTON, CALTAGIRONE, ROZZI, KORTZ, WARREN,
DAVIS, V. BROWN, YOUNGBLOOD, HENNESSEY, MURT, LONGIETTI,
VITALI, WHEATLEY, DiGIROLAMO, SCHLOSSBERG, DEAN, CHARLTON,
BULLOCK, FREEMAN, READSHAW, FRANKEL, MILLARD, RYAN, KAVULICH,
MENTZER, D. COSTA, ROTHMAN, DRISCOLL, SOLOMON, DONATUCCI,
DOWLING, KINSEY, NEILSON, M. QUINN, GABLER, DAWKINS, SIMS,
BIZZARRO AND GROVE, FEBRUARY 7, 2017
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Designating February 4, 2017, 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, becoming 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
WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks became known as the "Mother of the Civil
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