{"id":1108,"date":"2024-01-21T13:32:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T21:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/?page_id=1108"},"modified":"2024-01-21T13:44:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T21:44:59","slug":"2024-rosa-parks-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/?page_id=1108","title":{"rendered":"2024 Rosa Parks Award Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/KathyDawesFacebookimage.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/KathyDawesFacebookimage.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1111\" style=\"width:289px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/KathyDawesFacebookimage.jpeg 720w, https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/KathyDawesFacebookimage-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/KathyDawesFacebookimage-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Community Award:    Kathy Dawes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Volunteer and author of &#8220;New Years Challenge&#8221;, Vice-Chair of the Latah County Democrats<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bex-riehm.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bex-riehm-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1112\" style=\"width:318px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bex-riehm-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bex-riehm-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bex-riehm-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bex-riehm-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bex-riehm.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Junior Award: Rebekah (Bex) Riehm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">University of Idaho graduate student, administrative assistant for the UI Black and African American Culture Center, organizer for the first UI Black Excellence Gala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ROSA PARKS HUMAN RIGHTS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year the Latah County Human Rights Task Force honors the memory of this historic and courageous act by presenting two Rosa Parks Human Rights Achievement Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>One award is given to a recipient&nbsp;who has a significant history of commitment and achievement in the field of human rights for Latah County.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A Junior Award is presented to a high school or university student, or some other young person who shows promise in the field of human rights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The award is named for Rosa Parks,  a soft-spoken African-American seamstress, who refused to give up her seat to a white man, breaking existing segregation laws. Her courage started the Montgomery bus boycott, which marked a great stride forward for human rights and integration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The criteria<\/strong> for the selection of a Rosa Parks award include, but are not limited to,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>length of active participation in human rights causes;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a record of leadership and accomplishment; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>manifestations of special courage and commitment in opposing bigotry and celebrating diversity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community Award: Kathy Dawes Volunteer and author of &#8220;New Years Challenge&#8221;, Vice-Chair of the Latah County Democrats Junior Award: Rebekah (Bex) Riehm University of Idaho graduate student, administrative assistant for the UI Black and African American Culture Center, organizer for &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/?page_id=1108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1108\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}