Rosa Parks Stamp to Be Unveiled on Her 100th Birthday, February 4th

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January 26, 2013

Cassandra Spratling and Tom Walsh, Detroit Free Press, for USA Today

This new "Forever" stamp will go on sale February 4, 2013. — This new “Forever” stamp will go on sale February 4, 2013.

DETROIT — The first national unveiling ceremonies for a commemorative U.S. Postal Service stamp honoring civil rights icon Rosa Parks, will be held in Detroit and Dearborn, Mich., on Feb. 4.

Events at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit and the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn are expected to draw large crowds, including stamp collectors from around the country, on what would have been Parks’ 100th birthday.

The first Rosa Parks Forever stamps will be sold at the Wright museum, with a dedication ceremony starting at 7:30.a.m. The Henry Ford Museum, where the Rosa Parks bus is on permanent display, will host the First-Day-of-Issue stamp event at 10:45 a.m., as part of a daylong celebration dubbed the National Day of Courage.

Her 1955 arrest triggered the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. This was a part of the early Civil Rights Movement and the place that introduced Dr. King to the world as a leader. — Her 1955 arrest triggered the year-long Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. This was a part of the early Civil Rights Movement and the event that introduced Dr. King to the world.

Parks made history on Dec. 1, 1955, by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., bus — an act that spurred a movement to end legally sanctioned racial discrimination. She and her husband Raymond moved to Detroit in 1957.

Rosa Parks died Oct. 24, 2005, in Detroit, at the age of 92.

Speakers at the Henry Ford event will include activist and former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat from Detroit for whom Parks worked as a secretary and receptionist from 1965-88.

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