{"id":69,"date":"2014-05-29T00:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T00:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d6191933.u106.securedc.com\/?page_id=69"},"modified":"2024-01-21T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T21:55:56","slug":"rosa-parks-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/?page_id=69","title":{"rendered":"Rosa Parks Award Winners &#8211; 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/KathyDawesFacebookimage.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1111\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/KathyDawesFacebookimage.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"266\" 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: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Community Award: Kathy Dawes<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\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<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bex-riehm.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/bex-riehm-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"287\" 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: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Junior Award: Rebekah (Bex) Riehm<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\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<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ROSA PARKS HUMAN RIGHTS ACHIEVEMENT AWARD<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\nEach 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.\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n \t<li>One award is given to a recipient\u00a0who has a significant history of commitment and achievement in the field of human rights for Latah County.<\/li>\n \n \t<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<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\nThe 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.\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\n<strong>The criteria<\/strong> for the selection of a Rosa Parks award include, but are not limited to,\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"> <\/h2>\n<ul>\n \t<li>length of active participation in human rights causes;<\/li>\n \n \t<li>a record of leadership and accomplishment; and<\/li>\n \n \t<li>manifestations of special courage and commitment in opposing bigotry and celebrating diversity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>","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=69\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":48,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/1125"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightslatah.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}