IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 292 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States Postal Service 
should issue a commemorative postage stamp honoring the late Rosa Parks. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 7, 2005 
Mr. CONYERS (for himself, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mrs. 
MALONEY, Mr. SIMMONS, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, Mr. DOGGETT, 
Mr. SERRANO, Mr. HONDA, Mr. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. BROWN 
of Ohio, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mr. 
NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. BERKLEY, Ms. 
CARSON, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. DAVIS of Illi-
nois, Mr. SPRATT, Mr. HASTINGS
of Florida, Mr. HOLT, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. ROTHMAN, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. 
ABERCROMBIE, Mr. WEINER, Mr. SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. MEEHAN, Ms. 
KILPATRICK of Michigan, Mr. EVANS, Mr. DINGELL, Mr. LARSON of 
Connecticut, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota, Mr. 
MOORE of Kansas, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. FLAKE, Ms. LEE, Mr. NADLER, 
Mr. BECERRA, Mr. DICKS, and Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas) 
submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Government Reform 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States 
Postal Service should issue a commemorative postage 
stamp honoring the late Rosa Parks. 
Whereas in 1955, Rosa Parks’s quiet, courageous act 
changed the United States and its view of African Ameri-
cans, and redirected the course of history;
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Whereas at that time, in Montgomery, Alabama, as in other 
cities in the Deep South, the treatment of African Ameri-
cans on public buses had long been a source of resent-
ment within the African American community; 
Whereas under the segregated seating policies applying to 
passengers on public buses, African Americans were re-
quired to pay their fares at the front of a bus and 
reboard through the back door, and were, upon re-
boarding, permitted to sit in a ‘‘Colored’’ section in the 
rear of the bus only if all the White passengers had seats; 
Whereas White busdrivers, who were invested with police 
powers, frequently harassed African Americans, including 
by driving away after African American passengers had 
paid their fares, but had not yet reboarded the bus; 
Whereas on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks took her seat in 
the front of the ‘‘Colored’’ section of a Montgomery bus, 
but was asked, along with 3 other African Americans, to 
relinquish her seat to a White passenger; 
Whereas although the 3 other African American passengers 
relinquished their seats, Rosa Parks refused to do so, and 
was arrested for that refusal; 
Whereas because Rosa Parks’s act of disobedience launched 
the Montgomery bus boycott, which lasted for 381 days 
and propelled the civil rights movement into the national 
consciousness, she is widely known as the mother of the 
civil rights movement; and 
Whereas commemorative postage stamps have been commis-
sioned to honor other great leaders in American history: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that—
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(1) the United States Postal Service should 
issue a commemorative postage stamp honoring the 
late Rosa Parks; and 
(2) the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee of 
the United States Postal Service should recommend 
to the Postmaster General that such a stamp be 
issued. 
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