Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dead At 92

ClickOnDetroit ^ | October 24 2005

[jmc1969]

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 on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala. She lived in Detroit.

[freedumb2003]

A great woman with dignity and a grounded sense of reality.

RIP and God Bless, Mrs. Parks.

[Purrcival]

God bless her soul. She was an American hero.

[kublia khan]

The nation mourns a hero

[WasDougsLamb]

As Aaron Nevilles' song for you goes "Thank you, Miss Rosa" . Rest in peace.

[traviskicks]

She was a great woman, but I wonder why she picked Detroit to retire?
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Milton Friedman lives in San Francisco...

RIP Rosa.

[Bobibutu]

"Wow. Now I'm feeling old." Don't feel alone ...

Yeppers - Bless ya Rosa - I was massivly bigoted back then - still somewhat am - now - I just wanna know who is in my "tribe" - http://www.ejectejecteject.com/ - sleep well Rosa - you opened my eyes girl. Thx ... B

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Rest in peace, Rosa Parks. You left the world in better shape than you found it, due to your good works.

[SmoothTalker]

A brave and godly woman.

[traviskicks]

"Most people forget, Rosa stood up against GOVERMENT sanctioned discrimination."
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Bears repeating. Such is the evil nature of government and an example of what it can do when given the power to do something.

[calrighty]

I know one thing, if anybody ever tries to rob me of my dignity....LOOK OUT


Homepage NRA BUMP!

[Billthedrill]

In a lot of countries she'd have been taken out and shot. In this one the simple act of refusing to take a seat in the back of a bus was a profoundly revolutionary act. The ripples changed our world. That's worth thinking about.

God bless, Rosa Parks. In heaven you can sit wherever you want to.

[daybreakcoming]

Ms Parks gave those troubling times dignity and class. I'll never forget her courage. She surely was trembling inside but as John Wayne said ~~ "Courage is being afraid but saddling up anyway".

Rest in peace Ms Parks

[calrighty]

Your grandmother is living history. I hope she kept some good memoirs.

[rdb3]

Another one bites the dust?

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.

[tioga]

RIP

[NeoCaveman]

May she rest in peace.

[calrighty]

""Courage is being afraid but saddling up anyway""

I can't count the times I have been afraid, but we persevere, anyway..

[SevenofNine]

I think she move there she was getting death threat in Mongotmery that what I hear long time ago

RIP ROSA

[quantim]

It is a particularly cruel irony that the street named after an American icon is a ghetto defined by most if they saw it.  It is about hopelessness, despair, ruins.  Liberalism defined in full, dead, color. And the local electorate is only trading one idiot for another for a mayor while the canuck gov slobbers on this same mentality. 

It pains me to see this living local history continue to decay.