Titles. The garden between via Ardissone and via Castellino da Castello is dedicated to Rosa Parks
The ceremony in the presence of the Councilor for Culture Filippo del Corno, the President of the City Council Lamberto Bertolé and the American Consul Holly Holzer
Milan, May 13 2021 – The inauguration ceremony of the garden named after Rosa Parks, one of the symbolic figures of the civil rights movement, took place in the presence of the American Consul Holly Holzer, the Councilor for Culture Filippo del Corno and the President of the City Council Lamberto Bertolé in the United States. The garden is located at the intersection of via Francesco Ardissone and via Castellino da Castello, between the Puecher school and the Rinnovata Pizzigoni.
The choice to dedicate the Garden to Rosa Parks is the result of an online survey among the students of the Puecher School promoted, with an agenda of May 2020, by the councilor Alessandro Giungi. The boys were asked to vote among a shortlist of female names such as Rosalind Franklin, Stefania Rotolo, Felicia Impastato, Anastasia Buborova and Rosa Parks, who received 300 votes.
The plaque bears the following statement: Garden Rosa Parks – Civil Rights Activist – 1913/2005.
The story of Rosa Parks dates back to December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, one of the southern states of the United States. Rosa, an African American woman, was riding the bus home. She refused to give up her seat, as the segregationist laws of the time required him to do, to a white man who had boarded the vehicle later. She was arrested for violating city rules that required blacks to give up their seats to whites in the common sector when no seats were otherwise available. Since then Rosa Parks has been known as the 'mother' of the civil rights movement in America.
Updated: 13/05/2021