CA ACR156

Commemorates the 20th Anniversary of Rosa Parks Day in California on February 4, 2020

Memorializes Rosa Parks' role as the "Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement" for refusing to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama

Honors her leadership in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which lasted 381 days and led to the 1956 Supreme Court ruling in Browder vs. Gayle declaring Montgomery's segregation law unconstitutional

Recognizes Parks' decades of civil rights activism, including her investigation of the 1944 rape of Recy Taylor and her work with the NAACP

Urges all California residents to pay homage to Rosa Parks on her birthday, February 4