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Transit Equality Day or "Transit Equity Day" is a holiday in honor of the civil rights leader Rosa Parks, celebrated in the United States on her birthday, February 4. Rosa Parks Day was created by a network of Unions, including the Labor Sustainability Network, in 2017. [ 1 ]
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 1986: The birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. [1] June 19: Juneteenth National Independence Day: 2021: Commemorates General Order No. 3, the legal decree issued in 1865 by Union General Gordon Granger enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation to the residents of Galveston, Texas, at the end of the American Civil War. [2]
The third annual Livingston County Rosa Parks Transit Equity Day event is set for 8-9:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 2, at Cleary Commons, Cleary University, 3750 Cleary Drive, in Howell. The event includes ...
The following holidays are observed by the majority of US businesses with paid time off: New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, [2] Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after known as Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas. There are also numerous holidays on the state and local level that are observed to varying degrees.
Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights figure. In 1854, Graham insisted on her right to ride on an available New York City streetcar at a time when all such companies were private and most operated segregated cars. Her case was decided in her favor in 1855, and it led to the ...
Ninety-five years ago today, women in the United States were granted the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was secured as law. On August 26, we remember all ...
World Day of Social Justice (Social Justice Equality Day) is an international day recognizing the need to promote social justice, which includes efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion, gender inequality, unemployment, human rights, and social protections.
Before the bus boycott, Jim Crow laws mandated the racial segregation of the Montgomery Bus Line. As a result of this segregation, African Americans were not hired as drivers, were forced to ride in the back of the bus, and were frequently ordered to surrender their seats to white people even though black passengers made up 75% of the bus system's riders. [2]