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Posted by Q Thanks for what you did and stood for. --Previous Message--
on 10/25/2005, 12:45 pm, in reply to "Rosa Parks 1913 – 2005"
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Rest in peace, Rosa.
: “The only tired I was, was tired of giving
: in.”
:
: Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies at
: Home at Age 92 of Natural Causes
: by Bree Fowler
:
: DETROIT - Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give
: up her bus seat to a white man sparked the
: modern civil rights movement, died Monday
: evening.
:
: Rosa Parks, in the front of a city bus in
: Montgomery, Ala., after the US Supreme Court
: ruled against segregation on the city’s
: buses.
:
: She was 92. 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. 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 neighbourhoods 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.
:
: 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
: Parks was jailed. She also was fined $14 US.
:
: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1025-02.htm
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