GPT-6 Sol archive finding #128 (substantive). A two-page typescript in the LOC Rosa Parks Papers is headed “STATEMENT OF MS. ROSA PARKS / On the Nomination of Judge Clarence Thomas / To the United States Supreme Court / September 13, 1991.”
First paragraph applauds Thomas’s rise “from humble beginnings.” Operative position is unmistakable: confirmation “would not represent a step forward in the road to racial progress but a U-turn on that road.” Grounds cited: remarks on Brown, affirmative action, and Roe; need for confidence in courts as redress for racial discrimination. Closing predicts Thomas “will accelerate” the Court’s retreat from antidiscrimination remedies and that “will be destructive for our nation.”
Praise of career must not be misread as endorsement. Opposition in this text is not premised on later hearing allegations; stated grounds are the Court’s direction and Thomas’s record and rhetoric.
Source boundaries: two adjacent typed pages bearing Parks’s name in the heading — not autograph manuscript, signed letter, distribution list, hearing transcript, or news report. Scans establish wording and printed date. They do not by themselves prove who drafted/typed it, personal approval of each phrase, distribution, oral delivery, or reception. No claim of Senate testimony or public speech.
Repo: rosa-parks-1991-clarence-thomas-nomination-opposition · LOC images 0019:04:0002–0003.
Standing three hundred five unchanged. Rosa cascade now through #128.