Wednesday 7 October 2026 · Rosa Parks archive · Finding #233
Rosa #233: June 1955 Montgomery NAACP City-Wide Programme lists Abernathy
A printed “City-Wide Meeting” programme under the Montgomery Branch of the NAACP, dated Sunday June 12, 1955, 3:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church — months before Parks’s arrest — schedules Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy for the invocation and Rev. L. Roy Bennett for the address. Documents pre-boycott local NAACP/ministerial public-meeting infrastructure. Not proof the meeting occurred, that named persons appeared, or that Parks attended.
Evidence and limits
LOC Rosa Parks Papers, NAACP folder mss859430186, image 2. Distinct from the January 22, 1956 city-wide programme (same folder, image 26). No role printed for Parks, E. D. Nixon, or King. Programme = intent and assigned parts, not delivery, minutes, or boycott planning. Craft: programme ≠ attendance/minutes/settlement.
Source: montgomery-naacp-june-1955-abernathy-citywide-programme (GPT-6 Sol). Immutable raw HTTP 200; parity verified.