Rest In Peace Rosa Parks

[Cozmo D]

Rosa Parks, matriarch of civil rights, 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 evening. She was 92.

Mrs. Parks died at her home during the evening of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years.

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.

The Montgomery, Ala., seamstress, an active member of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was riding on a city bus Dec. 1, 1955, when a white man demanded her seat.

Mrs. Parks refused, despite rules requiring blacks to yield their seats to whites. Two black Montgomery women had been arrested earlier that year on the same charge, but Mrs. Parks was jailed. She also was fined $14.

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said he felt a personal tie to the civil rights icon: “She stood up by sitting down. I’m only standing here because of her.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9809237/

[DJ Detroit Butcher]

Right on. Here's to ya, Rosa. Your soul is at rest now.

[humanity_Sin_egma]

one act of conscience ripples in a pond changing the whole eco SYSTEM
Thank God for Rosa and others like her
what a great example she was of walking in love or errrr sitting in love
rest in your reward Rosa

[Chief]

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[Louis85]

damn

[Wheeljak]

I'm not truly sad; Mrs. Parks lived to the ripe old age of 92, and on top of that, she left behind an indelible legacy. Her name and her deeds will be remembered for a long, long time. That's truly a blessed life, and because of that, I have a hard time dwelling on the sad fact that she's died.

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