Rosa Park's Awards and achieviements
Lifetime Achievement Award (1997)
NAACP's Spingarn Medal (1970)
Martin Luther King Jr. Award (1980)
Honorary degree from Shaw College
Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize
Southern Christian Leadership Conference Annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award
With that frame of mind, Rosa Parks
continued her work for the NAACP and other civil rights organizations, In 1986, she
received an Ellis Island Medal of Honor for her achievements in this area. Senate Bill
Would Award Rosa Parks Congressional Gold Medal Levin, a cosponsor of the legislation,
offers Senate tribute to the civil rights pioneer. Rosa Park's also recieves the Rosa
Parks Peace Prize in Stockholm, Sweden, in '94. The Medal of Freedom from President
Clinton in '96. Kelly Hails Effort to Award Rosa Parks Congressional Gold Medal in
WASHINGTON: Calling Rosa Parks “an American icon” whose actions
gave birth to the modern civil rights movement in America.