On Sunday Feb 24, 2013 at 3 pm the St. Louis County NAACP will host it’s annual Rosa Parks State Observance Day celebration at Murchison Tabernacle CME Church, 7629 Natural Bridge Rd. in Normandy.
The event is free and open to the public. St. Louis County executive Charlie A. Dooley and former Missouri Governor Bob Holden are scheduled to serve as guest speakers.
In 2004 then state Representative and NAACP Branch President Esther Hill Haywood sponsored H.B. 1256 establishing Feb. 4 as Rosa Parks Day in Missouri annually.
Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery Alabama in 1955 sparked the beginning of the American Civil Rights Movement. Parks was the secretary and youth advisor for the Montgomery Branch of the NAACP.
The celebration is being sponsored by Ameren Missouri. For information, call the NAACP office at 314-389-1552.