The Southern Youth Leadership Development Institute will host the Montgomery Bus Boycott Celebration.
Montgomery, AL- The Southern Youth Leadership Development Institute will host a Montgomery Bus Boycott Celebration December 2-3, 2022, in Montgomery, Alabama. The celebration will include the Montgomery premiere of the “Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks,” in partnership with NBC Universal, and the Rosa Parks Gala, honoring extraordinary women from Alabama.
The Schedule of Events is:
Rebellious Life of Rosa Parks
December 2, 2023, 4:30pm
Rosa Parks Museum
252 Montgomery Street
Montgomery, AL 36104
Rosa Park Gala
December 3, 2023, 7:00pm
Renaissance Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center
201 Tallapoosa Street
Montgomery, AL 36104
The women honored during the gala are the Honorable Alexis Herman, former United States Secretary of Labor, Vicki Holub, President and CEO of Occidental Petroleum, Laurie Weil, Ph.D., Jennifer Lawson, Latosha Brown, Co-Founder of Black Voters Matter, Alexia Borden, Sr. Vice President, and General Counsel for Alabama Power, Katie Britt, United States Senator-elect for Alabama, the Honorable Nekima Williams, United States House of Representative for Georgia, Tanya Lombard, Vice President for Global External Public Affairs and Head of Multicultural Engagement & Strategic Alliances for AT&T, the Honorable Ann Berry, Secretary of the United States Senate, Elaine Flowers Duncan, NASA Engineer, Bobbie Knight, President of Miles College, and Ti’Ara Turner.
The National Host Committee for the weekend is chaired by the Honorable Stephanie Nellons Paige, CEO of the Nellons-Paige Group and consist of Janice Frazier, Ph.D., Board Chairman of Southern Youth Leadership Development Institute, the Honorable Rodney Slater, former United States Secretary of Transportation, the Honorable Terri Sewell, United States Representative for Alabama, the Honorable Steven L. Reed, Mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Bernice A. King, CEO of the King Center, Honorable Lottie Shackelford, former Mayor of Little Rock Arkansas, John Danielson, Chairman and CEO of the Chartwell Hamilton Group, Darren Peters, Founder and Managing Partner of the Peter Damon Group, Jim Courtovich, Founder of Sphere Consulting, and Alvin Brown, former Mayor of Jacksonville Florida.
Coco Brown, from the motion picture "Single Moms Club" will emcee the gala, and Mavis Staples, Nuria Fernandez, Administrator for the United States Department of Transportation, and Ambassador Andrew Young are scheduled to attend.
The title sponsor for the celebration is Occidental Petroleum. Other sponsors include Toyota Motors North America and Wells Fargo.
For more information or to purchase a ticket, go to www.syldi.org.
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The Southern Youth Leadership Development Institute (SYLDI) was established, by civil rights leader Doris Crenshaw, in Montgomery, Alabama, in 2004, to train youth to combat the inequalities of education. SYLDI inspires, cultivates, and trains youth with leadership potential to bring about a more disciplined approach to problem identification and resolution of issues that impact education policies.