[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 17532]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  RECOGNITION OF THE STATE OF OHIO FOR DECEMBER 1ST AS ROSA PARKS DAY

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                          HON. MARCIA L. FUDGE

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, November 15, 2011

  Ms. FUDGE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Ohio as the first 
state to designate December 1 as Rosa Parks Day with legislation to 
honor her life and legacy as the Mother of the Modern Civil Rights 
Movement.
  In 2005, then-State Representative Joyce Beatty wrote, advocated for 
and won unanimous support to pass Ohio's legislation in the 50th-
anniversary year of Mrs. Parks' courageous act of refusing to give up 
her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white passenger. This act 
sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Modern Civil Rights 
Movement.
  Ohio continues to honor Rosa Parks with an annual statewide tribute 
on December 1 entitled ``The Power of One,'' which celebrates that 
historical day when she took a stand by staying seated. A partnership 
between the Central Ohio Transit Authority, The Ohio State University, 
the Ohio Historical Society and the Ohio Civil Rights Commission brings 
the tribute to life each year. It includes a Children's Assembly that 
welcomes 800 schoolchildren to learn and be inspired by her legacy. 
Ohio's leadership in honoring Rosa Parks ensures that young children 
will be reminded that she is a symbol for justice and civil rights, and 
that sometimes one person can change the world.
  I am proud to recognize the great state of Ohio for commemorating 
Rosa Parks' legacy of inspiration and courage and our state's ongoing 
education of young people about civil rights.

                        (126th General Assembly)

                        (House Bill Number 421)

       An act to enact section 5.2231 of the Revised Code to 
     designate December 1 as ``Rosa Parks Day.''
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
       Section 1. That section 5.2231 of the Revised Code be 
     enacted to read as follows:
       Sec. 5.2231. The first day of December is designated as 
     ``Rosa Parks Day,'' in honor of the woman who helped usher in 
     the modern civil rights movement on that day in 1955 by 
     refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. 

       Jon A. Husted, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
       Bill Harris, President of the Senate.
       Passed December 14, 2005.
       Approved January 12, 2006.
       Bob Taft, Governor.
       The section numbering of law of a general and permanent 
     nature is complete and in conformity with the Revised Code.
       James W. Burley, Director, Legislative Service Commission.
       Filed in the office of the Secretary of State at Columbus, 
     Ohio, on the 13th day of January, A.D. 2006.
       J. Kenneth Blackwell, Secretary of State.
       File No. 62
       Effective Date 04/14/06.

                        (126th General Assembly)

                        (House Bill Number 421)

                                 AN ACT

       To enact section 5.2231 of the Revised Code to designate 
     December 1 as ``Rosa Parks Day.''
       Introduced by

     Representatives Beatty, Reidelbach, Allen, Redfern, Ujvagi, 
     Cassell, Harwood, Brown, Healy, Oelslager, Lana, McGregor, 
     J., Miller, Gilb, Boccieri, Perry, Skindell, Evans, C., 
     Carano, Chandler, Barrett, Hughes, Combs, Driehaus, 
     Aslanides, Flowers, DeGeeter, Hoops, Hood, Strahorn, 
     Peterson, Mitchell, Bubp, Smith, S., McGregor, R., Otterman, 
     Stewart, D., Raussen, Book, Yuko, Patton, S., Fende, 
     Hartnett, Mason, Wolpert, Woodard, Wagoner, Schaffer, 
     Fessler, Calvert, Carmichael, Core, Raga, Schlichter, Smith, 
     G., Koziura, Setzer, Blasdel Speaker Husted Representatives 
     Blessing, Buehrer, Coley, Daniels, DeBose, DeWine, Dolan, 
     Domenick, Evans, D., Faber, Garrison, Hagan, Key, Kilbane, 
     Law, Martin, Patton, T., Sayre, Schneider, Seaver, Stewart, 
     J., Sykes, Taylor, Trakas, Uecker, Walcher, Webster, White, 
     Widener, Willamowski, Williams, Yates Senators Miller, 
     Amstutz, Armbruster, Austria, Carey, Cates, Clancy, Coughlin, 
     Dann, Fedor, Fingerhut, Gardner, Goodman, Grendell, Hagan, 
     Harris, Hottinger, Jacobson, Jordan, Kearney, Mallory, 
     Mumper, Niehaus, Padgett, Prentiss, Roberts, Schuler, 
     Schuring, Spada, Stivers, Wachtmann, Wilson, Zurz

       Passed by the House of Representatives, December 13, 2005.
       Passed by the Senate, December 14, 2005.
       Filed in the office of the Secretary of State at Columbus, 
     Ohio, on the 13th day of January, A.D. 2006.
       J. Kenneth Blackwell, Secretary of State.

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