BILL ANALYSIS Ó
HR 5
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Date of Hearing: January 31, 2013
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES
Nancy Skinner, Chair
HR 5 (Yamada/Mitchell) - As Introduced: January 17, 2013
SUBJECT : Commemoration of Rosa Park's 100th birthday.
SUMMARY : Commemorates the 100th birthday of Rosa Parks and
urges all Californians to remember this great American woman.
Specifically, this resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1)Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama,
to James and Leona (Edwards) McCauley.
2)Rosa Parks was arrested in December of 1955 for refusing to
give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger and as a result
of this refusal to comply with the segregation laws, the
Montgomery Bus Boycott, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was
started and lasted for 381 days involving more than 40,000
African Americans.
3)On November 13, 1956, the United State Supreme Court ruled
that Montgomery's segregation law was unconstitutional, and in
December of 1956, the Montgomery buses were desegregated.
4)Rosa Parks is honored as the "Mother of the Modern Day Civil
Rights Movement," because her quiet act of defiance began a
movement that ended in legal segregation in our country and
made her an inspiration to people throughout the world and
laid the foundation for equal rights for all Americans and for
the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file.
Opposition
HR 5
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None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800