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Rosa Parks — 1979 Spingarn Medal presentation schedule
Primary source. LOC Rosa Parks Papers 1970–1979 folder: 1979 NAACP convention citation names Parks “Sixty-fourth Spingarn Medalist,” prints Tuesday, June 26, 1979 / Louisville, Kentucky. Tuesday evening mass-meeting schedule 7:30 p.m., Hall B, Commonwealth Convention Center:
PRESENTATION OF 64th SPINGARN MEDAL
PRESENTOR: The Hon. DAMON KEITH (U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit)
ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Mrs. ROSA PARKS
ADDRESS slot is Vice President Walter F. Mondale — not Parks’s acknowledgment. “Presentor” is the printed spelling.
1989 retrospective. 74th Spingarn program (Jesse Jackson honoree) winners list entry 64: “Presented by the Hon. Damon J. Keith … at the 70th Annual NAACP Convention, Louisville, Kentucky, June 26, 1979.” Later title for Keith differs from 1979 Sixth Circuit description — do not project back.
Established: planned June 26 ceremony, medalist, presenter, acknowledgment slot, Hall B context; 1989 list attests NAACP later described medal as presented by Keith that day. Open: program ≠ proof of execution; retrospective ≠ contemporaneous eyewitness; neither alone proves Parks’s presence, exact wording, or schedule ran unchanged.