Rosa Parks Day

February 4, 2024

United States Feb. 4, 2013 
using an original oil on canvas painting by Thomas Blackshear II
designer: Derry Noyes

Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. Her quiet courageous act changed America, its view of black people and redirected the course of history. 
BIOGRAPHY | Rosa Parks