There should be a "Rosa Parks Day"

[Walt Starr]

December 1 should be designated a National Holiday called Rosa Parks Day.

Anybody have any ideas on who to contact to get this idea rolling?

[katinmn]

1. John Conyers plans to pursue an appropriate commemoration

and he's looking for suggestions.

[Walt Starr]

4. I wrote this to Barack Obama

To the Honorable Senator Barack Obama,

I wanted to suggest legislation which can go a great way to heal many of the divisions in this nation. What I would propose is designating December 1 a national holiday and naming it "Rosa Parks Day".

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Walter E. Starr

[katinmn]

11. Wonderful. I think I'll contact my rep and one good senator tomorrow

:thumbsup:

[ourbluenation]

2. I'm with you...but one thing at a time...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5195805

[astonamous]

3. I can't believe that * didn't call for flags to go to half staff.

That would have been immediate. It says so much that he didn't.

[Walt Starr]

5. My flag is at half staff

I put my flag at half staff for the New Orleans victims two days before * of the Evilbush family issued his order.

And my Falg is currently at half staff for Rosa Parks and will remain there until December 2 to commemorate her passing and the fiftieth anniversary of her brave act of defiance.

[populistdriven]

6. based on the lack of civil disobedience in this country, we need one!

[KamaAina]

7. Free bus rides for everyone on Rosa Parks Day!

the way Hawai'i County (the Big Island) is already doing every day, as is New Orleans RTA for the next six months.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Nov/10/ln/ln09p.html

http://www.norta.com/news.php?file=news/10-07-2005.txt

[katinmn]

10. Wow. That's great. the whole country should do it at least one day

a year - December 1.

[me b zola]

8. I like the idea, Walt

Perhaps we should all submit letters to our hometowns/cities for streets to be named for Ms Parks.

[wrathofkahn]

9. I have long been a big fan of making it "Civil Rights Day"...

Instead of "MLK Day." Not that I have anything against Dr. King, mind you, just that I think that the focus is out of whack on that. Dr. King pulled the movement together, but there were many soldiers.

It's sort of like calling Veteran's Day "Alvin York Day" or something. There's just a lot of players involved who are kind of "snubbed" in the whole Civil Rights Movement.


I'd like to think that schoolchildren who come to school on "Civil Rights Day" would learn not just about Dr. King, but about Ms. Parks and Ralph Abernathy and the myriad others who were involved in the Movement.