Rosa Parks series · #95

Rosa Parks #95 — Museum groundbreaking: April 22 best supported

GPT-6 Sol resolved a one-day archive discrepancy. Rosa Parks took part in the Rosa Parks Library and Museum groundbreaking in Montgomery on Wednesday, April 22, 1998, best supported by a dated *Montgomery Advertiser* archival photo caption (Fred Gray gallery, credit David Bundy) naming Parks and attorney Fred Gray at the ceremonial shovel, dated April 22. An April 19, 1998 *LA Times* indexed preview independently scheduled April 22. Troy University retrospective agrees.

The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute timeline instead says April 21. The Advertiser gallery was republished in 2022 (not an original 1998 issue); original exposure metadata not inspected. LOC album and August 2 AP clipping establish 1998 participation and the shovel ceremony but do not fix the April day. Assessment: April 22 is best supported, not an independently verified original timestamp; reason for Institute’s discrepancy remains unknown — do not invent a two-day sequence.

Repo: rosa-parks-museum-1998-groundbreaking-date · Finding #82 revised.