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	Rosa Parks Highway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rosa Parks Highway is a portion of United States Interstate 55 in Saint Louis County and Jefferson County, near St.
		The road was named after civil rights activist Rosa Parks by an act of the United States Congress in 1972.
		In 2000 the Ku Klux Klan sponsored the highway for clean up (which allowed them to have signs stating that this section of highway was maintained by the organization).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosa_Parks_Highway (137 words)

	Rosa
		Rosa, Alabama Rosa is a town located in 2000 census, the population of the town is 313.
		Rosa Albach-Retty Rosa Albach-Retty (Romy Schneider's paternal grandmother.
		Rosa Parks Highway Rosa Parks Highway is a portion of 1972.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/rosa.html (481 words)

	Rosa Parks
		Rosa Louise McCauley (born February 4, 1913), best known by her married name Rosa Parks, is a retired seamstress who is noted as being a very important American civil rights movement activist.
		She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama and is most famous for her December 1, 1955 arrest for refusing a bus driver's order to give up her seat to a white man and stand in Montgomery, Alabama.
		The Rosa Parks Library and Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, was dedicated in November 2001.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/rosa_parks.html (453 words)

	Rosa Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rosa Louise Parks (born February 4, 1913 as Rosa Louise McCauley) is a retired seamstress and figure in the American Civil Rights Movement, most famous for her refusal to give up a bus seat to a white man and her subsequent arrest.
		While standard accounts of Parks' act of civil disobedience in 1955 refer to her simply as a tired seamstress, it is often forgotten that she had attended trainings at the Highlander Folk School earlier that year.
		Parks hired lawyer Johnny Cochran to appeal the decision in 2001, but this too was denied, on First Amendment grounds.
	www.centipedia.com /index.php?title=Rosa_Parks (662 words)

	Civil Rights' Shining Light (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Parks are co-founders of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development.
		Parks is "a living example of what individuals can do if they put their minds to it," Troy State board member Lamar Higgins said at the dedication.
		Parks' favorite program is "Pathways to Freedom," a two-week summer educational and historical research activity for 70 students who trace American history from the Underground Railroad to the civil rights movement.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1998/09/25/loc_parks25.html (1828 words)

	Happy Birthday, Rosa Parks! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Parks' message remains as poignant today as it did nearly 50 years ago: "People need to free their minds of racial prejudice and believe in equality for all and freedom regardless of race," she said.
		On Dec. 1, 1955, when 42-year-old Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on the Cleveland Avenue bus after a long days work as a seamstress, she was painfully reminded of an experience with the same driver, 12 years earlier.
		Rosa Parks' case laid the legal foundation for the disintegration of institutionalized segregation in the South and her civil disobedience served as a catalyst for a new era in the U.S. civil rights movement.
	www.womense-news.com /article.cfm/dyn/aid/1210/context/ourdailylives (1158 words)

	Rosa Parks Portal
		On December 1, 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks changed America forever when she was arrested for refusing to yield her seat to a white patron on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus.
		Parks was found guilty of disorderly conduct and that lead directly to the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott.
		Parks was not the "quiet seamstress" as the media has often portrayed her.
	www.e-portals.org /Parks (1575 words)

	CNN - Rosa Parks' adopted grandson killed in bus accident - July 29, 1997
		STONY CREEK, Virginia (CNN) -- The 25-year-old adopted grandson of civil rights figure Rosa Parks was killed on Tuesday when a charter bus carrying children learning about the slavery era veered off Interstate 95 in southern Virginia and plunged into the Nottoway River, state police said.
		Parks, who made civil rights history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, told reporters that her adopted grandson, Addisa Foulke of Detroit, had been killed in the accident about 20 miles south of Petersburg, Virginia.
		Parks, 84, said in Detroit as she waited for a Virginia-bound plane.
	www.cnn.com /US/9707/29/bus.accident (366 words)

	Signs of the Times - Klan-Sponsored Highway Named for Rosa Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A stretch of highway sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan was recently named after civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.
		Missouri [Governor] Mel Carnahan signed legislation in late May that created the Rosa Parks Highway, a portion of Interstate 55 near downtown St. Louis.
		Parks' refusal in 1955 to yield her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus kicked off the modern civil rights movement" (Intelligence Briefs, SPLC Report, June 2000).
	www.loper.org /~george/trends/2000/Jun/82.html (121 words)

	CNN - 1 dead, several children hurt as bus runs off highway - July 30, 1997
		STONY CREEK, Virginia (CNN) -- A close friend of famed civil rights figure Rosa Parks was killed when a charter bus carrying children veered off Interstate 95 south of Petersburg and plunged into the Nottoway River, state police said.
		Parks had earlier said Foulke was her adopted grandson.
		Parks, 84, who made civil rights history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, urged tour leaders to continue the trip that traces the path of slaves who fled the South for freedom in Canada.
	www.cnn.com /US/9707/30/bus.accident.update (551 words)

	Directory - Society: History: By Region: North America: United States: People: Parks, Rosa
		On December, 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. She was arrested for disorderly conduct.
		Rosa Parks and the Bus Boycott · cached · Tells the story of Parks' arrest on the 1st of December, 1955, for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat.
		Detroit News: Rosa Parks Asks Court to Reinstate Lawsuit Against Rappers · iweb · cached · Parks accuses the rap group OutKast of misusing her name in a song.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=581081 (593 words)

	Highways don’t lack for names
		Highway commissioners weren’t always aware of the people for whom the road or bridge was to be named, Briggs said.
		State Rep. Pat Naeger, who led the effort to name the highway, said he was inspired partly by the 1999 decision to designate a 5-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in St. Louis as the Mark McGwire Highway.
		The recent legislative tendency to name highways and bridges might mean there will be little practical effect as a result of the commission’s decision to stop initiating new names.
	archive.showmenews.com /2002/Aug/20020824News013.asp (876 words)

	Klan road named for Rosa Parks
		JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks says she appreciates efforts by Missouri lawmakers to name a section of highway for her after the Ku Klux Klan adopted it for cleanup.
		"Too many have suffered at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan," Parks, 87, said in a statement Tuesday from Detroit, where she lives.
		Parks' refusal to yield her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955 was a turning point in the civil rights movement.
	www.freep.com /news/nw/parks24_20000524.htm (218 words)

	Columbus Transcontinental from out, a weblog by George Girton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In additional to the other designations noted, Route 10 (in its entirety) has been officially designated the "Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway", although on the east coast, the corresponding sign is not on Route 10.
		According to the fragment, the highway has this name in its entirety, although a sign is not to be found at its eastern terminus.
		The highway has many names: the Rosa Parks Freeway, for example, refers to that portion of it between the 405 and the 110.
	www.thedailychannel.com /journals/a/o26.shtml (167 words)

	KKK
		Groups that adopt a section of highway are acknowledged by a sign posted next to the roadway.
		According to Miller, when the Klan was allowed to adopt a highway in the St. Louis, Mo., area, some state legislators got together and named that stretch of highway after civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.
		In a subsequent telephone call, Brossmer reported that he had contacted local officials and learned that the portion of highway the Klan wanted to take over was being relinquished by a group that didn't have enough members to share the clean-up tasks.
	www.catholicherald.org /archives/articles/kkk.html (778 words)

	Highway adopted by KKK may be named after Rosa Parks
		Highway adopted by KKK may be named after Rosa Parks
		JEFFERSON CITY - Within months the Ku Klux Klan could be responsible for cleaning a road named for Rosa Parks, the fl woman made famous for refusing to move to the back of the bus.
		Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis, proposes to memorialize Parks, one of the major heroes in the civil rights movement, by renaming a section of Interstate 55 outside St. Louis.
	www.mdn.org /2000/STORIES/HWYKKK.HTM (372 words)

	Teacher owes to Rosa Parks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Patricia Ellis, of Oxford, may be best known for her successes as a high school teacher and a civil rights historian, but she thinks she has done some of her best work as a student.
		Parks, a seamstress, refused to take a “colored-only” seat on a segregated Montgomery, Ala., bus so that a white passengers could sit.
		Parks regarded as being a grandson — was killed.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/06/15/loc_teacher_owes_to_rosa.html (452 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (The Name Game)
		I'm sure many of you are aware that about two weeks ago, the US Supreme Court ruled that the state of Missouri cannot discriminate against the Ku Klux Klan when it comes to groups that want to participate in the adopt-a-highway program.
		The KKK is now cleaning up a stretch of the newly-christened Rosa Parks Freeway.
		The Missouri Legislature then voted to name the stretch of highway adopted by the Klan the "Rosa Parks Highway," in honor of the civil rights hero from Alabama whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955 led to her arrest and then a boycott of the Montgomery bus system.
	www.snopes.com /inboxer/outrage/rosapark.htm (571 words)

	Ethics Case Study Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The program allows an individual or, more typically, an organization to take responsibility for cleaning up and beautifying a stretch of highway that it "adopts." In recognition of this effort, the name of the organization is posted on a sign along the highway, indicating that particular stretch of the highway is maintained by that organization.
		Missouri's subsequent appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was joined by 28 other states arguing that a highway sign acknowledging the Klan suggests an implicit acceptance of the Klan and gratitude for its participation.
		In 2000, high school students in Palatine, Illinois adopted all available stretches of highway in order to prevent the KKK from adopting any section of highway in the state.
	ethics.acusd.edu /applied/cases/Detail.asp?offset=47 (519 words)

	AllHipHop.com : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lawyers for Rosa Parks and representatives for BMG will finally come to the table in a settlement meeting scheduled to take place this month.
		According to Parks’ lawyer Gregory Reed, the settlement talks are aimed at ending a five-year-old dispute over Outkast’s hit song “Rosa Parks,” from their platinum 1998 album Aquemini.
		Parks sued Outkast’s parent label, German corporate giant BMG, claiming that the company was profiting off of her name, which is a registered trademark.
	www.allhiphop.com /hiphopnews?ID=3863 (724 words)

	U.S. Secretary Slater Names Highway to Honor Civil Rights Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rosa Parks, often called the "mother of the civil rights movement," is best known for her refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus in December 1955.
		Her subsequent arrest was the catalyst for the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott, the first victory in the growing civil rights movement.
		Rosa Parks because she represents the power of one individual to act as a change agent and to remind citizens that they have the ability to create positive change within their spheres of influence.
	www.dot.gov /affairs/2000/dot21700.htm (244 words)

	Section 227-312 "Rosa Parks Highway", portion of inters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Section 227-312 "Rosa Parks Highway", portion of inters
		"Rosa Parks Highway", portion of interstate highway 55 in St.
		The portion of interstate highway 55, one mile south of Lindbergh Boulevard to Butler Hill Road, contained within a county of the first classification with a charter form of government having a population over nine hundred thousand shall be designated the "Rosa Parks Highway".
	www.moga.state.mo.us /statutes/C200-299/2270000312.HTM (62 words)

	Stoplight, Honda CRV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This week, Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan plans to sigh a bill creating the Rosa parks Highway, a portion of Interstate 55 near downtown St. Louis.
		Parks, a longtime Detroit resident, became the mother of the modern civil rights movement after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated Montgomery, Ala., city bus in 1955.
		Thomas Robb, national director of the Ku Klux Klan in Harrison, Ark., said the governor’s decision to sigh the legislation is a "betrayal" of white Christians.
	www.onwheelsinc.com /StopLight/oldpages/000529_content.asp (719 words)

	KKK to clean Rosa Parks Hwy. - 5/24/00
		The highway the Ku Klux Klan won the right to adopt in St. Louis soon will be named after Rosa Parks.
		"I appreciate the highway being named in my honor," said 87-year-old Parks in a released statement.
		The Klan won the right to join the state's Adopt-A-Highway cleanup program last November and was assigned the highway stretch.
	www.detnews.com /2000/nation/0005/24/a01-62252.htm (210 words)

	civilrights.org -- In The States
		Supporters say that Rosa Parks reminds us of the power of one individual to act as a change agent.
		Not all of us are going to change the course of the civil rights movement, but all of us have the ability to create change within our own spheres of influence.
		Enshrining Rosa Parks' name on a stretch of Highway 55 would remind drivers of that message every day on their way to work and back home again.
	www.civilrights.org /activist_toolkit/in_the_states/detail.cfm?id=483 (109 words)

	Missouri Department of Transportation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ST LOUIS -- The Missouri Department of Transportation will unveil the new Rosa Parks Highway signs in a ceremony at the Holiday Inn at Interstate 55 and Butler Hill Road on Thursday, November 2 at 3 p.m.
		On May 30 former Governor Mel Carnahan signed the bill (HB1972) designating I-55 from one mile south of Lindbergh Boulevard to Butler Hill Road the Rosa Parks Highway.
		The exact wording on each sign is “Rosa Parks Highway” and each sign is green with white lettering.
	www.modot.state.mo.us /local/d6/pressreleases/PR00648.html (181 words)

	SCR31 - Renames a portion of I-55 as the "Rosa Parks Highway"
		SCR31 - Renames a portion of I-55 as the "Rosa Parks Highway"
		Renames a portion of I-55 as the "Rosa Parks Highway"
		SCR 31 - Renames a portion of I-55 in St. Louis county the "Rosa Parks Highway"
	www.senate.state.mo.us /00info/bills/SC031.htm (48 words)

	We Got Jokes
		A couple of months ago, the US Supreme Court ruled that the state of Missouri cannot discriminate against the Ku Klux Klan when it comes to groups that want to participate in the adopt-a-highway program.
		While seeing the name of the Klan on a highway sign is aesthetically disgusting, many felt that this decision was a victory for free speech and equal protection under the law.
		Well, the Department of Transportation in Missouri has gotten its legal revenge, and it is a sweet revenge.
	www.seeingblack.com /x052402/wegotjokes052402.shtml (177 words)

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