1999
She was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal.
Rosa Parks received the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999. It is the highest award presented by the US Legislature but is not related to and should never be confused with the Medal of Honor which is awarded for military valor.
=Rosa Parks won the nobel peace prize and has helped end racial injustice=
She is amazing she won a total of 4 awards! Two of them are NAACP's highest honor, and the Spingarn medal!
Congressional Gold Medal was created in 1776.
The Congressional Medal of Honor is bestowed to members of the military. George M. Cohan was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1936, which is a civilian award, and is not the same as the Medal of Honor. See link below for full list of recipients:
Thomas Eddison received the Congressional Gold Medal recipient in 2025 on august 31
Congressional Gold Medal is the highest honor which a civilian may be awarded.The Congressional Medal of Honor is strictly military.
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He was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal
A Congressional Gold Medal is an award bestowed by the United States Congress and is, along with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_medal
Because he's black.