Rosa Parks Day Act
November 30, 2023
U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) will be joined by Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chairman Steven Horsford (NV-04) and members of the CBC to urge passage of her bill, H.R. 308, the Rosa Parks Day Act, to make December 1st a federal holiday commemorating the arrest of Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a public bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott and galvanizing the Civil Rights Movement. T...