Marshall, Weprin Hail Rosa Parks

(L. to r.): Borough President Helen Marshall, the Reverend Timothy Mitchell of Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church and Assemblymember Mark Weprin (D- Little Neck) joined in a ceremony in Flushing held in a 1950s-era bus to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ act of protest in Montgomery, Alabama. The ceremony included a re-enactment of Parks’ refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in December 1955, sparking a bus boycott that served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement of the 1960s.