Alabama Congresswoman Terri Sewell has introduced legislation to create a federal holiday honoring civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.

Sewell wants Dec. 1 to become “Rosa Parks Day” to commemorate her 1955 arrest for violating Montgomery’s segregation laws on buses.

Sewell, who has previously introduced the legislation, today described her proposed holiday as a counter measure to what she called an attack on diversity and Black history by President Donald Trump’s administration.

“This bill is especially important given the attacks by the Trump administration on our history, the history of African Americans,” she said. “Sadly, we know that efforts are afoot to erase our history and roll back the progress that so many of our ancestors fought and died for.”

Trump, days into his new presidency moved quickly on a pledge to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Conservative critics of the programs malign them as ‘woke’ and discriminatory policies.

“Federal hiring, promotions, and performance reviews will reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and not, under any circumstances, DEI-related factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements,” a White House statement reads.

Sewell elaborated on her plan this morning during a briefing where she was joined by Rep. Shomari Figures, D-Mobile, along with other members of the Congressional Black Caucus. Sewell and Figures are the only two Democrats from Alabama’s congressional delegation and are also the only two Black House members from the state.

Parks’ activism was a seminal moment during the civil rights era and sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the national debut of Martin Luther King. Sewell presented the bill Tuesday on what would have been Park’s 112 birthday.

“By simply refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus, she stood up for the values that this nation holds dear,” Sewell said this morning. “Her quiet, distinguished courage set the stage for the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott and galvanized a movement that changed the very fabric of our nation.”

Sewell used her briefing to assail the “terrible news” of Trump’s purging of DEI initiatives and firing of federal employees along with changing websites that detailed diversity and inclusion efforts.

“And the list goes on and on,” she said. “Just last month we learned that the history of the Tuskegee Airmen from my home state of Alabama had been removed from the Air Force curriculum before being restored after public backlash.”

The removal of the videos featuring the Tuskegee Airmen was quickly reversed after bipartisan calls, including from Alabama Sen. Katie Britt.

“Their attack is an attack on all of us and the values that make this nation great,” Sewell said.

Sewell said her bill already has 57 co-sponsors in the House.

Parks was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and was the first woman to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol rotunda when she died in 2005. Some states already observe Rosa Parks Day as official state holidays.