Ordinance No. 15-86

WHEREAS, Mrs. Rosa Louise Parks was a resident of Cleveland Court on Cleveland Avenue and of the City of Montgomery, Alabama; and

WHEREAS, Mrs. Parks was reareed in the City of Montgomery, Alabama and was a member of St. Paul AME Church; and

WHEREAS, her great courage has endeared her to many people throughout the Nation when she refused to give up her seat on a (c)ity bus causing her arrest and the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement; and

WHEREAS, Councilman Joseph Dickerson and Councilman Leu Hammonds ask this Council to rename Cleveland Avenue, from Mildred Street to Fleming Road, Rosa L. Parks Avenue in honor of Parks, the MOther of the Civil Rights Movement:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, that Cleveland Avenue, from Mildred Street to Fleming Road, be renamed Rosa L. Parks Avenue

STATE OF ALABAMA )
COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY )
CITY OF MONTGOMERY )

I, John L. Baker, City Clerk of the City of Montgomery, Alabama DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a trueand correct copy of an ordinance which was duly adopted by the Council of the City of Montgomery at its regular meeting heald the 4th day of March, 1986.

JOHN L. BAKER, CITY CLERK

APPROVED: march 5, 1986

EMORY FOLMAR, MAYOR