NAMES IN THE NEWS : Highway Named for Rosa Parks
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TOLEDO, Ohio — Part of a superhighway has been renamed for Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped spark the civil rights movement in 1955.
Parks, 76, who lives in Detroit, was honored Thursday when the Ohio Department of Transportation unveiled one of the signs that will be placed along the highway from Perrysburg to Toledo, a distance of about 10 miles.
“The dedication of Interstate 475 in the name of Rosa Parks will serve to remind us all of the sacrifice this great African-American woman has undertaken,” said state Rep. Casey Jones, who sponsored legislation to rename the highway in her honor.
Several streets in other cities, including Detroit and Montgomery, have been renamed in her honor, Parks said.
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