February 6, 2013
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Postal Service Honors Rosa Parks
Stamp comes on 100th anniversary of her birth
(AP) - Hundreds of people
gathered in Dearborn, Mich.
Monday to celebrate the late Rosa
Parks on what would have been
her 100th birthday by unveiling a
postage stamp in her honor steps
from the Alabama bus on which
she stared down segregation
nearly 60 years ago.
Parks, who died in 2005, be-
came one ofthe enduring figures
of the Civil Rights movement
when she refused to cede her seat
in the colored section ofthe Mont-
gomery, Ala., bus to a white man
after the whites-only section filled
up. Her defiance and the ensuing
black boycott of the city bus
system helped the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. rise to national
prominence,
"This is being done in sight of
the bus where future generations
can sit in a seat where Rosa Parks
In Diversity...
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by
police Lt. D.H. Lackey in
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22,
1956, two months after
refusing to give up her se a t on
a bus for a white passenger.
She was arrested with several
others who violated segrega­
tion laws. (AP photo)
John Conyers, a fellow Demo­
crat, pulled the curtain to reveal
the Rosa Parks Forever Stamp,
which bears her 1950’s likeness.
The stamp ceremony was part
of a 12-hour event at The Hemy
Ford in celebration of the 100th
anniversary of Parks' birth that
sat and refused to budge and in a also featured speeches and live
se at w h ere the w o rld w as music.
changed," U.S. Sen. Carl Levin
continued
on page 11
said before he and U.S. Rep.
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We salute Dr. King
and his leadership in
furthering Civil Rights.
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