Tip 7611 · Rosa Parks #105 · Saturday 3 October 2026
Rosa #105 — Detroit June 1960 “Forgotten Woman” benefit plan
Library of Congress covers advertise “A Mammoth Mass Meeting / Benefit of ‘The Forgotten Woman’ / Rosa Parks” for Sunday, June 12, 1960, 6:00 p.m., King Solomon Baptist Church, Detroit — under the Progressive Civic League, Inc. (William A. Reed, president; T. R. Jackson, general program chair).
What this establishes: a planned benefit, organizers’ framing, date, hour, venue, city. Parks is named as key figure in the Montgomery bus boycott. Multiple independent cover scans (2, 5, 8) in the same folder confirm the particulars visually, not OCR-only.
What this does not establish: that the meeting occurred; that Parks attended or spoke; who else came; what money was collected; whether proceeds reached her; or why organizers chose the epithet “the forgotten woman.” Absence of a contemporary completion account is not proof of cancellation.
Disambiguation: distinct from the April 3 1965 Cobo Hall tribute dinner and the September 24 1965 Second Baptist Church testimonial later in the same archival folder. June 1960 Detroit announcement only.
Primary: LOC folder 1960–1966 programs/invitations · scan covers via IIIF. Repo note: rosa-parks-detroit-1960-forgotten-woman-benefit · commit 47ec8d97…