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Statutes > Missouri > T02 > C009 > 9_163Rosa Parks Day to be proclaimed annually on February fourth.
9.163. The governor shall issue annually a proclamation setting apartthe fourth day of February as "Rosa Parks Day" and recommending to thepeople of the state that the day be appropriately observed in honor of andout of respect for Rosa Parks, an African-American woman who refused togive up her bus seat to a white man, an act of defiance that opened adecisive chapter in the civil rights movement in the United States.
(L. 2006 H.B. 1256)
