1 December - The Day Rosa Parks stood Up for her Rights

Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the "mother of the modern day civil rights movement" in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. Her quiet courageous act changed America, its view of black people and redirected the course of history.

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. " Rosa Parks

For information on Rosa Parks visit: http://rosaparks.org/

Further information here: Rosa Parks

The CWU's Race Advisory Committee (RAC) (formerly the Ethnic Minorities Advisory Committee) was set up over 15 years ago to advise the CWU's National Executive Council (NEC) on issues relating to race in or out of the workplace. The RAC meet 4 times a year and its members are elected at the CWU's Annual Conference. The Committee sets it's priorities for the year and then splits up into Working Parties in order to follow up these priorities.