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                                                                  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 
           
          American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees,  
          AFL-CIO (AFSCME)

           Opposition 








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          Analysis Prepared by  :    Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800