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Rosa Parks scholarships are awarded at Fredonia ceremony

Scholarships valued at $350 each were awarded to State University at Fredonia students at the Rosa Parks Scholarship Competition awards ceremony on Oct. 28.

The annual competition welcomes student entries, in the form of writing, speaking, drawing, photography and dancing, that express views and experiences with multiculturalism and the celebration of diversity.

Scholarship recipients are Samantha King of Wingdale, a junior Social Work major, whose wrote the essay “Connection;” Tiffani Robinson of Rochester, N.Y., a junior Dance and Psychology major, who developed the video dance “Sequels,” and Tim Highway-Snider of Niagara Falls, N.Y., who has a major in Interdisciplinary Studies: Ethnic and Gender Studies and a minor in Psychology, and created the graphic display “Discrimination is Against the Law.”

“This year, the Rosa Parks Scholarship Competition included incredibly thought-provoking content. Selecting winners was not an easy task for the judges,” said David White, director, Office of Multicultural Support Services.

Students who achieved honorable mention, Aurelie Audant, Israel Ortiz and Josue Petion, were also acknowledged.

Established at Fredonia in 1989 by Fredonia staff member Dr. Vivian Garcia through the Fredonia College Foundation, the Rosa Parks Scholarship gives all students an opportunity to voice their opinion on social injustice, cultural perspective and activism.

Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist in the 1950s whose act of civil disobedience led to the Montgomery bus boycott and was later heralded by Congress as the “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement.”

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