Rosa Parks Dies at 92....

ManagerJosh · Oct 24, 2005

Rosa Parks Dies at 92....

May you rest in peace, Rosa Parks...

Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dies at 92

DETROIT - Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92.

Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, said Karen Morgan, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich.

Mrs. Parks was 42 when she committed an act of defiance in 1955 that was to change the course of American history and earn her the title "mother of the civil rights movement."

At that time, Jim Crow laws in place since the post-Civil War Reconstruction required separation of the races in buses, restaurants and public accommodations throughout the South, while legally sanctioned racial discrimination kept blacks out of many jobs and neighborhoods in the North.
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babewithbrains_14 · Oct 25, 2005

That's a shame. I'm writing a paper on Civil Right's for History coursework, and I have to mention the MBB in it. I really admire her - she stood up vfor what she believed in!

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