Rosa Parks Dead At Age 92

[jeo4]

Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dead At 92

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died, Local 4 has learned.

Parks, 92, reportedly died around 7 p.m. Monday at St. John Hospital on Detroit's east side.

Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 landed her in jail and sparked a bus boycott that is considered the start of the modern civil rights movement. The bus is on display at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn.

Parks, was born Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala. She lived in Detroit.

Source: Yahoo!

(More later as this story develops.)

[jeo4]

Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92

Monday, October 24, 2005; Posted: 10:33 p.m. EDT (02:33 GMT)

(CNN) -- Rosa Parks, who helped trigger the civil rights movement in the 1950s, died Monday, her longtime friends told CNN. She was 92.

Parks inspired the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955.

Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system by blacks and led to a court ruling desegregating public transportation in Montgomery.

Parks, facing regular threats and having lost her job, moved from Alabama to Michigan in 1957.

She joined the staff of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, in 1965, championing civil liberties. Parks later earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal.

Parks was the subject of the documentary "Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks," which received a 2002 Oscar nomination for best documentary short.

In April, Parks and rap duo OutKast settled a lawsuit over the use of her name on a CD released in 1998. (Full story)

Link (http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/24/parks.obit/index.html)

Rest In Peace, Mrs. Parks.

[MacReady]

Wow, didn't even know she was still alive.

R.I.P. 'mam. You helped make your country a better place. That's quite a feat. We will remember you.

Originally posted by jeo4
The bus is on display at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn.

Oh the irony...

[TheSpleen]

A few noteworthy quotes from this true American hero:

"As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless -- there is much to be done, and people need to work together"

"At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this .... It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in."

The last sentences in these statements are incredibly profound, and something that anyone who cares about freedom and liberty should heed. The day after her arrest, Marter Luther King, Jr. organized the Montgomery bus boycott, which lasted over a year. It's because of people like them, and many others whose names we will never know, that we have the freedoms that we rightly cherish. If we just relied on our government, and rich people in positions of power to look out for us, we would still have slavery, we wouldn't have freedom of speech, equal rights for women, and so on. It's through the power of the people dissenting, organizing, and acting together, that we've attained those precious freedoms, and we do still have a long way to go.

At a celebration in her honor in 1988, she said:
"I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die - the dream of freedom and peace."

[BubbaStrangelove]

Rosa Parks made it better, but we need more people like her. With the Denny's and Cracker Barrel issues happening as late as 2000, blacks still aren't being treated as equal as they should according to our declaration of independence.

We need less angry people, and more people who stand firm to their rights with passive resistance.

[TheDeadWalk]

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[JohnTheHenchman]

Meh, I'm actually more upset about the passing of Wellington Mara

[TheSpleen]

If someone is shameless enough to say they care more about who wins the Superbowl than the fact that black people don't have to be forced to sit at the back of a bus any longer, I can applaud the statement for one thing: it's honesty.

[JohnTheHenchman]

It's a good thing I did not say a single thing that you just said I did then. I don't like honesty anyway.

[BubbaStrangelove]

Originally posted by JohnTheHenchman
Meh, I'm actually more upset about the passing of Wellington Mara


Good Simpsons' reference!

Though I think more people would have caught it if you'd just said "My cat's breath smells like cat food."

[JohnTheHenchman]

Very funny.

[someguy]

The first thing I imagined is Parks going on a bus to heaven and St. Peter is all like BACK OF THE BUS and Parks is like No but this time she goes to hell instead of going to jail.

Oh yeah, she's a wonderful woman, stood up for her race, etc. RIP

[TheDeadWalk]

Originally posted by someguy
The first thing I imagined is Parks going on a bus to heaven and St. Peter is all like BACK OF THE BUS and Parks is like No but this time she goes to hell instead of going to jail.

Oh yeah, she's a wonderful woman, stood up for her race, etc. RIP

She would go to the back of the bus if St. Peter told her to, she probably just wasn't going to get up simply on the basis that Wellington Mara wanted to sit down in the seat across from her.

[Joshmo]

It was a great gesture for her body to lie in the Rotunda.