Saturday 3 October 2026 · Tip 7434 · Rosa Parks series
Rosa Parks #85: 1998 LA Metro Tribute — Composite Reenactment, Parks Absent Ill
Archive finding #85 at the March 20, 1998 LA Metro dedication carefully separates tribute performance from biographical presence:
- A first-person piece titled “I’ve Just Gotta Sit Down” explicitly calls itself a composite of many experiences.
- Author credit: Delores Lakey.
- Reenactor named: Courtney Parsons — not Parks’s own testimony.
- Program schedules Parsons’s reenactment and Lakey’s separate recitation, but does not prove either performance occurred.
- Contemporary report: Parks was absent ill.
Another negative-result desk that protects the series from misattribution. Full sources and limits: rosa-parks-metro-1998-lakey-parsons-tribute.