[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23611]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               ROSA PARKS

  (Mr. DAVIS of Illinois asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Speaker, I rise in tribute to Rosa Parks 
who passed away yesterday.
  A reporter called me last night and wanted to know what did Rosa 
Parks's life mean to me. I remembered that I was a young teenager, as a 
matter of fact, the same age as Emmett Till, growing up during that 
period, living in the southern part of the country.
  Things became so exciting for us as a result of Rosa Parks and the 
whole civil rights movement until we could hardly sleep at night 
waiting to see what was going to happen the next day. So Rosa Parks 
sparked a movement that shall forever live and can never die. We still 
have a ways to go, but she helped bring us to a real point. I salute 
her.

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