Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies

October 25, 2005
Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies
By E. R. SHIPP
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/national/25parks.html

"Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's, died yesterday at her home in Detroit. She was 92 years old."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/national/25parks.html

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