Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave. She died in October 2005 at age 92. Quick Facts. He couldn’t leave me, and I couldn’t run as fast,” according to The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. She didn’t let that stop her. Rosa Parks passed away on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92. Her death marked the end of a remarkable life dedicated to the pursuit of justice and equality. Parks died of natural causes, having lived a long and impactful life that left a lasting legacy on the world. Born Rosa Louise McCauley on Feb. 4, 1913, she married Raymond Parks in 1932. By the early 1950s, Rosa Parks and her now deceased husband were long-time activists in Montgomery Alabama's chapter April 14, 2005: Parks and the hip-hop group Outkast reach an out-of-court settlement regarding their 1998 song "Rosa Parks." October 24, 2005: Parks dies at the age of 92. In 1987 she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, which provides learning and leadership opportunities for youth and seniors. She was an active supporter of civil rights causes in her elder years. She died in October 2005, at the age of 92. Footnotes. Introduction, in Papers 3:3, 5. King, Stride Toward Freedom, 1958. Rosa Lee Parks, whose act of defiance in 1955 — refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man — was to change the course of American history, died Monday. She was 92. Oct. 24, 2005 — -- Civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks died today at age 92. Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Parks' refusal to give up a seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a Rosa Parks, black woman whose refusal to relinquish her seat to white man on city bus in Montgomery, Ala, 50 years ago sparked civil rights movement of 1950's and 1960's, dies at age 92; events Parks began writing her memoirs from her new, 25 th-floor high-rise. (And per a 1994 piece in the New York Times, the apartment complex made room for Parks when there was no room: Mrs. Parks said she had intended to move several months ago to the apartment complex, called Riverfront Apartments, because she was tired of going up and down stairs A Michigan public act established Rosa Parks Day, celebrated on the first Monday following her February 4 birthday. Rosa Parks was 92 years old when she died in her Detroit home on October 24, 2005. The front seats of city buses in Detroit and Montgomery were adorned with black ribbons in the days preceding her funeral. DETROIT (AP) - 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, On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of going to the back of the bus, which was designated for African Americans, she sat in the front. Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. When she died Mike Ilitch reportedly once paid the rent of civil rights activist Rosa Parks when she moved into a Detroit apartment complex in 1994. Parks died in October 2005. She was 92. Related: Little Caesars founder quietly paid Rosa Parks’ rent for years By Eric Levenson. 2 minute read Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon, died in 2005. Bettmann Archive. Rosa Parks resided in Detroit until she died at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005 in her apartment on the east side of the city. She had been diagnosed with progressive dementia in 2004. City officials in Montgomery and Detroit announced on October 27 that the front seats of their city buses would be reserved with black ribbons in honor of Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley, a carpenter and stonemason, and Leona Edwards, a teacher. She spent much of her childhood living with her maternal grandparents in Pine Level, a small town in southeast Montgomery County. There, she began her education in an all-black school with a Mike Ilitch once paid Rosa Parks' rent She died in October 2005 at 92 years old. As reported by Christopher Botta of Sports Business Journal in 2014: On Aug. 31, 1994, Parks, then 81, was
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