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Little Caesars founder quietly paid Rosa Parks’ rent for years By Eric Levenson. 2 minute read Published 11:52 AM EST, Wed February 15, 2017 Link Copied! Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch With a headline blaring “Mike Ilitch paid for Rosa Parks’ housing for more than a decade,” the TV station’s story is just not true. The headline repeats itself on national black media sites and elsewhere. Not true. By all accounts, but particularly an Associated Press report from December 2004, Parks fell behind on her rent in 2002 Mike Ilitch once paid Rosa Parks' rent Sports Business Journal reported in 2014 about the late Tigers, Red Wings owner's good deed for a civil rights icon. Brian Manzullo. Detroit Free Press. The judge said Ilitch paid Parks' mortgage until the day she died in 2005. Parks is known as "The First Lady of Civil Rights," after she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus, sparking a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, which then led to nationwide protests to end segregation in public facilities. When he read about the attack on Rosa Parks's life, Judge Damon Keith immediately tried to find a safer, newer apartment for Parks to live in, per USA Today. When Illitch read about the plan in the paper, he called Keith and said that he would pay for Parks's rent for as long as needed. Ilitch read the story in the newspaper, contacted Keith and offered to pay her rent for the rest of her life, which he did until Parks died in 2005. Ilitch’s help, without any fanfare, showed After Ilitch read about Parks’ search in the newspaper, he contacted Keith and offered to pay for Parks’ rent ($2,000 a month) in perpetuity. In total, Ilitch paid for Parks’ rent from 1994 until her death in 2005. Ilitch read the story in the newspaper and called Keith, offering to pay for Parks’ housing indefinitely. With no fanfare, Ilitch continued paying for the apartment until Parks died in 2005 Mike Ilitch paid her rent until she died in 2005. Rosa Parks was most known for launching the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, by refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery For over ten years, the Detroit businessman paid the rent of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, according to a 2014 news article from Sports Business Daily. Though locally reported, the information was Mike Ilitch reportedly once paid the rent of civil rights activist Rosa Parks when she moved into a Detroit apartment complex in 1994. he called the judge and said he would pay for Parks Little Caesars founder Mike Ilitch quietly paid Rosa Parks' rent for years. By CNN. Wednesday, February 15, 2017 Giving In Silence: For Decades, Little Caesars Pizza Founder Paid Rosa Parks’ Rent Paying Rosa Parks’ rent was one the entrepreneur's many generous actions. He died last week at the age of 87. In 1955, Rosa Parks very publicly changed the lives of countless others. In 1994, one person secretly helped to change hers. When Parks was assaulted and robbed in her home at the age of 81, the founder of Little Caesars (and the owner of both the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings) stepped up. The news that the business owner had arranged to pay for Parks' rent first appeared back in 2014, when a federal judge spoke with the Sports Business Journal. "It's important that people know what Ilitch quietly paid Rosa Parks' rent until she died Back in February 2014, SportsBusiness Daily reported that Ilitch had arranged to pay for housing for civil rights icon Rosa Parks after she was Ilitch paid for her to move to a new secure high-rise and offered to keep paying the rent for the rest of her life (in her final years, a church would pay her rent, and then the building owner finally let her stay there for free). He didn't publicize the move, and no one knew about it till Keith revealed it after Ilitch died a couple years back Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks sits in a 1950s-era bus in Alabama, in this 1995 file photo, 40 years after she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white person Those who knew Mike Ilitch, the Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner who died last Friday, have spent the past few days fondly remembering his impact on friends, on Detroit residents This post Little Caesars Founder Paid Rosa Parks’ Rent For Over A Decade first appeared on Vibe. Advertisement. About Our Ads; Solve the daily Crossword. 29,097 people played the daily Crossword
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