Rosa Parks Day event to recognize quiet courage of civil rights activist
January 31, 2025
Press release from City of Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, Fla. ‒ Local leaders, alongside members of the Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee, invite all neighbors to celebrate the legacy of Rosa Parks at an upcoming ceremony during Black History Month.
When: 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 4
Where: RTS Rosa Parks Transfer Station, 700 SE 3rd St.
This event is rescheduled from its original December 2024 date. The annual event commemorates the date (Dec. 1, 1955) when the civil rights activist refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. The actions of Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and helped fuel the Civil Rights Movement and the end of racial segregation.
Charles McCauley
Anderson McCauley
James McCauley
Sylvester James McCauley and Rosa Louise McCauley
Parks,
How is Rosa Parks a black woman when her father, grandfather and great grandfather were Irishmen?
Remember the bible says you are what your father is.
In Florida we have always had the “one drop” rule.
So local leaders and members of the Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee invite citizens to attend this event on a Tuesday at 11 am?!? Aren’t most people working at that time of day? Maybe a weekend day would have been a better choice?