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The Wonder Woman Foundation presented its first “Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage Award” to Rosa Parks, the Black woman who sparked the famous Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1955.
1984 (Nov 14)
The Wonder Woman Foundation presented its first "Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage Award" to Rosa Parks, the Black woman who sparked the famous Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott in 1955. Parks, age seventy-one, recalled her experience in accepting the award in New York. She said, “I am not going to move," when a bus driver told her to give up her seat to a white man. Parks added, “I stand before you full of new courage and determination not to retire, as long as I feel I can be of some assistance to troubled people...." The Wonder Woman Awards were established in 1981 to highlight the fortieth anniversary of “Wonder Woman," the comic book heroine created by William Moulton Marston.
References:
- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.