Annual Rosa Parks awards ceremony to be held Oct. 25

Winners of this year’s Rosa Parks Scholarship competition – now its 35th year at SUNY Fredonia – will be announced at an awards ceremony that starts at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 25, at the Williams Center Horizon Room.

Rosa Parks scholarships – each valued at $350 – are designed to recognize students who use their respective talent to express their opinion or view on the subjects of social injustice, cultural perspective and activism through common forms of communication such as writing, speaking, dancing, drawing or singing.

Winning submissions take full advantage of the medium chosen by the student and have strong emotional and/or intellectual impact. All entries are to focus on multiculturalism or social justice. Entries are due Wednesday, Oct. 11, at 4 p.m. For more information email David White or visit the Williams Center Room G106.

Award recipients will present their work at the ceremony that is free and open to the public.

Ms. Parks was an African American Civil rights activist in the 1950s whose act of civil disobedience led to the Montgomery bus boycott and was later heralded by the U.S. Congress as the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement.”