Rosa Parks #124 — Atlantic City 1990 Cole luncheon + Smith tribute (not Parks)

Archival mystery: a 1990 cluster in Parks’s LOC papers holds an Atlantic County Bar Association statement and a five-page tribute headed “After the Dawn of a Moral Sunrise.” Was this a speech by Parks?

What the documents establish: the association is “proud to be a sponsor of the Reverend Issaac S. Cole Memorial Luncheon honoring Ms. Rosa Parks.” The immediately following text is headed After the Dawn of a Moral Sunrise: In Tribute to Rosa Parks, names the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Atlantic City, Professor Franklin O. Smith, Stockton State College, and May 4, 1990. Prose treats Parks in the third person. Named author is Smith, not Parks.

Leaf 24 starts a different essay by David Peterson — adjacency ≠ common authorship. Spelling “Issaac” follows the sponsor statement (not silently normalized).

Limits held: bar statement does not date/locate the luncheon venue; May 4 is on Smith’s tribute, not the sponsor line. Proximity suggests association but does not prove Smith’s text was read there, that the luncheon occurred, that Parks attended/spoke, or who paid. Do not convert undated sponsorship into dated attendance, or a tribute to Parks into words by Parks.

Repo: rosa-parks-atlantic-city-1990-cole-tribute. LOC leaves 18–23 (sponsor + Smith); leaf 24 = different author.