UNH Celebrates Rosa Parks and Civil Rights Movement Dec. 1
 
The campus community is invited to participate in “Celebrating 50 years of the Civil Rights Movement: Honoring Rosa Parks, a Woman of Courage,” Thursday, Dec. 1.

The event is an interactive educational program to celebrate civil rights, social justice, and nonviolent protest. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Diversity Initiatives, the event will be held from noon to 2 p.m. in the MUB Strafford Room.

Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to Dec. 1, 1955. That was the day when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala. Her courage helped to bring about the civil rights legislation that has transformed the lives of millions of men and women in this country for generations to come.

Come pay homage, view video footage of Rosa Parks and engage in the small group Dialogue Café led by faculty, staff and students.