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10-24-2005, 10:26 PM
Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dead
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5165408/detail.html
POSTED: 6:42 pm PDT October 24, 2005
Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died, Detroit TV station WDIV is reporting.
Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 landed her in jail and sparked a bus boycott that is considered the start of the modern civil rights movement.
Parks, was born on Feb. 4, 1913. Most recently, she lived in Detroit.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/5165408/detail.html
POSTED: 6:42 pm PDT October 24, 2005
Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died, Detroit TV station WDIV is reporting.
Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 landed her in jail and sparked a bus boycott that is considered the start of the modern civil rights movement.
Parks, was born on Feb. 4, 1913. Most recently, she lived in Detroit.