METRO doesn't join other transit agencies in honoring Parks
KTRK-13's Tom Abrahams reports that METRO didn't do anything special to honor Rosa Parks today:
Fifty years ago a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. It was an action that many consider to be the launching point for the civil rights movement.
Transit authorities all over the country honored Parks on Thursday in various ways. In Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and Corpus Christi, they left an open seat on their buses. But Houston METRO did nothing on Thursday.
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But METRO officials contend they are not being insensitive. And they point out that just last month they honored Parks with pictures of her in every one of its 1,200 buses.
Are they talking about these signs that Laurence Simon photographed one day after Parks passed away last month?
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 12/01/05 10:14 PM | Houston Transit | Print | Comments (1)
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