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More Than 2 Years After Her Death, Parks to be Inducted Into Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame
MARION,
Ala. — Rosa Parks, the black seamstress who helped launch the
civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat to a white
man on a bus in Alabama’s capital, will be inducted this year
into the state Women’s Hall of Fame.
This is the first year that Parks, who died in October 2005 in Detroit
at age 92, is eligible; women must be dead for at least two years before
being considered. She will be this year’s sole inductee.
“Rosa Parks was a woman of silent dignity and grace whose life changed
the state, the nation and the world,” said Valerie Pope Burnes, director
of the Hall of Fame.
Parks was arrested Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat
on a Montgomery city bus. Her arrest prompted blacks to boycott the city’s
bus system and led to a Supreme Court decision ending segregation in public
transportation.
The Montgomery bus boycott was led by the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr., then a relatively unknown young minister. The boycott catapulted him
to a leadership role in the civil rights movement.
Parks received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and the
Congressional Gold Medal in 1999.
The Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame, founded in 1970, is at Judson College
in Marion.
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