Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dies at 92

[Dakotah]

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, 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."

 

[starfish]

Aww...I just posted the same thing.

I guess she deserves it though.

 

[Mr. dB]

They will NOT be carrying her casket in the back of the bus.

 

[Dial_tone]

she lived a long time

 

[coldblue1955]

she will be missed.

 

[Lestat]

very sad

 

[ziggyziggy]

RIP Rosa, you helped change a great many things.

Zig

 

[Razorguns]

lol @ the lip service on this (and other) boards. Most people don't even know what she looks like other than "some old black woman".

Let's just say "the memory of what she did" will be lived on long after her death.