[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 78 (Tuesday, May 10, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H4786-H4787]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            ROSA LOUISE McCAULEY PARKS POST OFFICE BUILDING

  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend 
the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 6614) to designate the facility of 
the United States Postal Service located at 4744 Grand River Avenue in 
Detroit, Michigan, as the ``Rosa Louise McCauley Parks Post Office 
Building''.

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  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The text of the bill is as follows:

                               H.R. 6614

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. ROSA LOUISE MCCAULEY PARKS POST OFFICE BUILDING.

       (a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal 
     Service located at 4744 Grand River Avenue in Detroit, 
     Michigan, shall be known and designated as the ``Rosa Louise 
     McCauley Parks Post Office Building''.
       (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, 
     document, paper, or other record of the United States to the 
     facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be 
     a reference to the ``Rosa Louise McCauley Parks Post Office 
     Building''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from 
New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney) and the gentlewoman from South 
Carolina (Ms. Mace) each will control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from New York.


                             General Leave

  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous 
consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days in which to revise 
and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on this 
measure.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentlewoman from New York?
  There was no objection.
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such 
time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 6614 to designate the 
facility of the United States Postal Service located at 4744 Grand 
River Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, as the Rosa Louise McCauley Parks 
Post Office Building.
  Mrs. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in 
Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended elementary school in Pine Level, 
Alabama, and eventually went on to attend the Alabama State Teacher's 
College High School. Unfortunately, she was not able to graduate with 
her class due to the passing of her grandmother. Mrs. Parks further 
delayed her education to take care of her family when her mother fell 
ill. She eventually received her high school diploma in 1934 after 
marrying Raymond Parks on December 18, 1932.
  In the 1930s, Mrs. Parks was an early activist in the effort to free 
the Scottsboro Boys. With her husband, Raymond, she worked as the 
secretary and later the youth leader of the local branch of the NAACP.
  Mrs. Parks' refusal to surrender her seat to a White male passenger 
on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of 
protests that reverberated throughout the United States. Her courageous 
act changed America's view of Black people and redirected the course of 
history.
  After her arrest, Black people in Montgomery organized and promoted a 
boycott of the city bus line that lasted 381 days. Inspired by the 
Montgomery protests, other actions took shape in the form of sit-ins 
and eat-ins to demand equal rights for all people.
  From 1965 to 1988, Mrs. Parks worked for Congressman John Conyers' 
staff as he represented what was then the First Congressional District 
of Michigan.
  In February 1987, she co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute 
for Self Development with Ms. Elaine Eason Steele in honor of her late 
husband Raymond. The goal of the institute was to motivate and empower 
youth not targeted by other programs to achieve their highest 
potential. Mrs. Parks saw the energy of young people as a real force 
for change.
  Mrs. Parks received more than 43 honorary doctorate degrees, hundreds 
of plaques, certificates, citations, awards, and keys to many cities, 
such as the NAACP Spingarn Medal, the UAW's Social Justice Award, the 
Martin Luther King, Jr., Non-Violent Peace Prize, and the Congressional 
Gold Medal in 1999.
  In September of 1996, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of 
Freedom by President Bill Clinton. In the State of Michigan, the first 
Monday after February 4 has been designated as Mrs. Rosa Parks Day.
  On October 24, 2005, Mrs. Parks peacefully passed away.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge all of my colleagues to join me in honoring the 
life of this great civil rights activist by naming the Post Office at 
4744 Grand River Avenue in Detroit, Michigan, as the Rosa Louise 
McCauley Parks Post Office Building.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. MACE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, Rosa Parks is known as the ``Mother of the Civil Rights 
Movement.''
  Her brave resistance set in motion one of the largest social 
movements in American history: the Montgomery Bus Boycott. After 381 
days, the Montgomery Bus Boycott ended after the Supreme Court held 
that any law requiring racially segregated seating on buses violated 
the 14th Amendment.
  Because of her brave actions, Mrs. Parks lost her job and faced death 
threats the remainder of her life, but she never gave up the fight. She 
moved with her family to Detroit in 1957, where she continued to 
support the civil rights movement.
  Mr. Speaker, I support this postal-naming bill, and I yield back the 
balance of my time.
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Mr. Speaker, I urge the passage 
of H.R. 6614, and I yield back the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney) that the House 
suspend the rules and pass the bill, H.R. 6614.
  The question was taken; and (two-thirds being in the affirmative) the 
rules were suspended and the bill was passed.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.

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