Georgetown honored deceased civil rights activist Rosa Parks with a memorial service Monday night.
About 30 students gathered with lighted candles on the Healy Building steps to read poems, share their thoughts and have a moment of silence to commemorate Parks, who passed away on Oct. 24.
“We’re just trying to get everybody together and have a moment of silence to pay homage,” Karine Noncent (MSB ‘07), president of the Georgetown chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said.
She said the NAACP decided to organize the service after more than two weeks passed without Georgetown holding an official memorial.
“Rosa Parks is the mother of the civil rights movement, so it’s very important that we recognize her efforts and her achievements,” Georgetown NAACP Vice President N. Rashad Jones (SFS ‘06) said in his opening remarks.
