The Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee and local Gainesville leaders will host a Rosa Parks Day event on Tuesday to celebrate the legacy of the civil rights activist.
Courtesy city of GainesvilleThe Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Committee and local Gainesville leaders will host a Rosa Parks Day event on Tuesday to celebrate the legacy of the civil rights activist.
The event, open to the public, will be held at 11 a.m. at the Gainesville Regional Transit System’s Rosa Parks Transfer Station (700 SE 3rd St.).
The annual event, rescheduled from its original December 2024 date, commemorates the date (Dec. 1, 1955) when Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Her actions sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that helped spark the Civil Rights Movement and the end of racial segregation in the U.S.
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