PARKS, Rosa Louise.
Rosa Parks Signed Florida State University Honorary Degree Ceremony Program.
Florida State University Honorary Degree Ceremony For Rosa L. Parks Program; Signed by her
Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University, 1994.
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Rare original Florida State University "Honorary Degree Ceremony For Rosa L. Parks" program where she received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters on November 21, 1994. Octavo, four pages, with a black and white photograph of Parks on the verso of the front panel. Boldly signed by Rosa Parks in green beneath her photograph. Additionally signed or inscribed on the itinerary page by six members of the staff of Florida State University including president Talbot D'Alemberte, Florida board of regents Mr. Steven J. Uhlfelder, and student body president Mr. Ryan J. Orner. In near fine condition with rubbing.
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks rejected bus driver James F. Blake's order to vacate a row of four seats in the "colored" section in favor of a White passenger, once the "White" section was filled. Parks was not the first person to resist bus segregation, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) believed that she was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws, and she helped inspire the Black community to boycott the Montgomery buses for over a year. The case became bogged down in the state courts, but the federal Montgomery bus lawsuit Browder v. Gayle resulted in a November 1956 decision that bus segregation is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Rosa Parks Signed Florida State University Honorary Degree Ceremony Program.
$450.00
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