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109TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 109-193
RECOGNIZING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ROSA LOUISE PARKS' REFUSAL
TO GIVE UP HER SEAT ON THE BUS AND THE SUBSEQUENT DESEGRE-
GATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETY
JULY 27, 2005.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed
Mr. SENSENBRENNER, from the Committee on the Judiciary,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H. Con. Res. 208]
The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the con-
current resolution (H. Con. Res. 208) recognizing the 50th anniver-
sary of Rosa Louise Parks' refusal to give up her seat on the bus
and the subsequent desegregation of American society, having con-
sidered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and
recommend that the concurrent resolution be agreed to.
PURPOSE AND SUMMARY
The purpose of H. Con. Res. 208 is to recognize the 50th anniver-
sary of Rosa Louise Parks' refusal to give up her seat on the bus
and the subsequent desegregation of American society.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR THE LEGISLATION
Fifty years ago this coming December, Rosa Louise Parks
through one act of defiance inspired a town, a movement, and a na-
tion to hold true to the ideals and principles upon which our nation
was founded. Her single act is considered by many to be the begin-
ning of the civil rights movement.1
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in
the colored section of a bus to a white man in the town of Mont-
gomery, Alabama.2 Her arrest led to the 381-day Montgomery Bus
Boycott, legal challenges to the State of Alabama's and the City of
Montgomery's segregation laws relating to public transportation
systems, and subsequently to the desegregation of Montgomery,
Alabama.3 The Supreme Court case affirming the unconstitution-
IRita Dove, The Torchbearer, Time Magazine, Volume 153, June 14, 1999.
2Id.
3Gayle v. Browder, 352 U.S. 903 (1956).
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