A SPEECH RALLY IN TRIBUTE TO ROSA PARKS; 6th December 2005,13:30 A speech rally was organized Thursday evening in Tripoli to mark the 50th anniversary of the outcry for the civil rights of the blacks in America led by Rosa Parks December 5, 1955. The General Coordinator of the Social People's Leadership; Secretary of Foreign Affairs at the General People's Congress; the assistant Secretary of the General People's Committee; Akbar Mohamed the representative of the Leader of the Nation of Islam in America, Louis Farrakhan; Judge Adam Chakour, representative of Rosa Parks institution; chairman of the Black Civil rights Movement in America, deputy speaker of the African Parliament, speakers of parliaments in Togo, Namibia, Somalia, Côte d' Ivoire, head of governments of several Caribbean countries, chairman of the African Jurists, head of African trade unions and NGOs, as well as legal and political activists in several African Union countries and a throng of those concerned in human rights. All speakers hailed this historic event, appreciating the initiative since no other country in the world before honoured Lady Rosa Parks outside the USA, emphasizing that the initiative of the leader to commemorate the occasion is a revolutionary gesture. The address of the Nation of Islam in America hailed the leading role of the Leader in reshaping the map of the world, by his major efforts in founding the great African Union, underlining that its foundation is driving towards the United States of Africa. The address reviewed examples of racial discrimination practiced in America against the Africans fifty years ago up to the day on which this brave lady Rosa Parks rejected to leave her seat in the bus when a man of a European colour asked her to leave for him the seat, in accordance to the racist laws enacted by the US to segregate Africans from white Americans, and due to this revolutionary act she was arrested and imprisoned. The speech of the Nation of Islam organization gave an account of what the Africans endured over the years, where they were suppressed and where placed in the so- called dirty places in America. Rosa Parks institution saluted in behalf of all African Americans the leader who strived for freedom and principles which Rosa Parks dreamt of their victory. The speech delivered by Judge Adam Chakour underlined that this was the first time in which the struggle of African Americans is commemorated by a country in their continent. He said as an African American Muslim he is honoured by the respect of the African Muslim leader Muammar al-Gathafi who realizes the magnitude of the sufferings of the African Americans. Then, he gave an account of the role played by lady Rosa Parks fifty years ago at the out set of the call for civil rights for African Americans in America.