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Lagow provided the animal to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials for identification, but Lagow reported in a September 17, 2006 phone interview with John Adolfi, founder of the Lost World Museum, that the " critter was caught on a Tuesday and thrown out in Thursday's trash.
There is also a median on Reed College Place which is owned by Portland Department of Transportation and maintained by Portland Parks & Recreation.
Much of the province's sparsely inhabited north and east lie on the irregular granite Canadian Shield, including Whiteshell, Atikaki, and Nopiming Provincial Parks.
* Garden of Eden on Wheels: Selected Collections from Los Angeles Area Mobile Home and Trailer Parks
* The Garden of Eden on Wheels: Collections from Los Angeles Area Trailer Parks
* " Nemesis ", a song by Aaron Parks on the album Invisible Cinema
Warner Parks, situated on of land, consists of a learning center, of scenic roads, of hiking trails, and of horse trails.
Similar observations on incompetence can be found in the Dilbert cartoon series ( such as The Dilbert Principle ), the movie Office Space, and television shows the BBC's The Office or NBC's Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock.
In 1999, a lawsuit was filed on her behalf against Outkast and LaFace Records due to their unauthorized use of her name in their 1998 song, " Rosa Parks ".
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona ( Edwards ) and James McCauley, a teacher and a carpenter, respectively.
Parks went on to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education, but dropped out in order to care for her grandmother and later her mother, after they became ill.
Seat layout on the bus where Parks sat, December 1, 1955.
Parks said, " My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest ... I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.
The No. 2857 bus on which Parks was riding before her arrest ( a GM " old-look " transit bus, serial number 1132 ), is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum.
Years later, in recalling the events of the day, Parks said, " When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.
By Parks ' account, Blake said, " Y'all better make it light on yourselves and let me have those seats.
When recalling the incident for Eyes on the Prize, a 1987 public television series on the Civil Rights Movement, Parks said, " When he saw me still sitting, he asked if I was going to stand up, and I said, ' No, I'm not.
Four days later, Parks was tried on charges of disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance.
Parks suffered two broken bones in a fall on an icy sidewalk, an injury which caused considerable and recurring pain.
In 1992, Parks published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography aimed at younger readers, which recounts her life details her life leading to her decision to keep her seat on the bus.
In 1984, a made-for-TV movie, based on Northup's memoir, was directed by Gordon Parks.

Parks and Montgomery
Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
* 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
Parks ' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
At the time, Parks was secretary of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.
In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery.
In December 1943, Parks became active in the Civil Rights Movement, joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and was elected secretary.
On November 27, 1955, Rosa Parks attended a mass meeting in Montgomery that addressed this case as well as the recent murders of the activists George W. Lee and Lamar Smith.
After working all day, Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus around 6 p. m., Thursday, December 1, 1955, in downtown Montgomery.
Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code, although technically she had not taken a white-only seat ; she had been in a colored section.
Edgar Nixon, president of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and leader of the Pullman Union, and her friend Clifford Durr bailed Parks out of jail the next evening.
King said that Mrs. Parks was regarded as " one of the finest citizens of Montgomery — not one of the finest Negro citizens, but one of the finest citizens of Montgomery.
In 1957, Raymond and Rosa Parks left Montgomery for Hampton, Virginia ; mostly because she was unable to find work.
But the best and certainly a more nearly contemporary analogy is with Rosa Parks ' refusal to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955, which sparked the modern civil rights movement.
** In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refuses to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger and is arrested, leading to the Montgomery bus boycott.
* Fort Montgomery State Historic Site, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
" On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
The public Troy University maintains a 3, 000 student population campus in downtown Montgomery that prominently houses the award-winning Rosa Parks Library and Museum.
The multi-cultural diversity of the International Corridor area has attracted the attention of the State of Maryland, the University of Maryland, the Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments ( COG ), Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning ( M-NCPPC ), Prince George's and Montgomery counties, and national think tanks such as the Brookings Institution.
She was the first person to resist bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, preceding the better known Rosa Parks incident by nine months.

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