Rosa Parks died in 2005 (Image: Rex) She - along with her mother and husband - moved to Detroit, Michigan, where she worked as a secretary in U.S John Conyer’s congressional office. Rosa Parks and her niece, Urana McCauley, had come for the event following the death of McCauley’s grandmother. Parks had been unable to find work, but also because of disagreements with Dr. King and other leaders of the city's struggling civil rights movement.
Finally, on Nov. 13, 1956, in Browder v. Gayle, the Supreme Court outlawed segregation on buses. Parks was no exception. She had problems paying her rent, relying on a local church for support until last December, when her landlord stopped charging her rent.

She would say that she hoped only to inspire others, especially young people, "to be dedicated enough to make useful lives for themselves and to help others. "There are very few people who can say their actions and conduct changed the face of the nation," Mr. Conyers said yesterday in a statement, "and Rosa Parks is one of those individuals.". Parks, on the other hand, was regarded as "one of the finest citizens of Montgomery -- not one of the finest Negro citizens -- but one of the finest citizens of Montgomery," Dr. King said. "She was in her 40's. Correction: October 26, 2005, Wednesday Because of an editing error, a front-page obituary of Rosa Parks in late editions yesterday referred incorrectly to The Montgomery Advertiser, which printed a front-page article on Dec. 4, 1955, that publicized a boycott of Montgomery's buses the next day. "', In "Stride Toward Freedom," Dr. King wrote, "Actually no one can understand the action of Mrs. Rosa Parks will be remembered for the way her quiet determination in the face of injustice helped change America. Another had it that she was a "plant" by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Died: 24 October 2005 Best known for: The Montgomery Bus Boycott. Although the McCauleys were farmers, Mr. McCauley also worked as a carpenter and Mrs. McCauley as a teacher.

Parks said. ", ROSA LEE PARKS:"No, I wasn't afraid at all. Mrs.
Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies. Churches and houses, including those of Dr. King and Mr. Nixon, were dynamited. Her birthday, February 4, and the day she was arrested, December 1, have both become Rosa Parks Day, commemorated in both California and Ohio. Parks had been among those raising money for the girl's defense. Even in the last years of her life, the frail Mrs. This report from Laura Trevelyan: ROSA LEE PARKS:"The driver said that if I refused to leave the seat, he would have to call the police and I told him just call the police, which he did and when they came, they placed me under arrest. He demanded that four blacks give up their seats in the middle section so a lone white man could sit. That moment on the Cleveland Avenue bus also turned a very private woman into a reluctant symbol and torchbearer in the quest for racial equality and of a movement that became increasingly organized and sophisticated in making demands and getting results. Contact Us | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright, Celebrities Interesting Facts By Nationality, Celebrities Interesting Facts By Profession. She had to send out notices of the N.A.A.C.P. In response, blacks in Montgomery boycotted the buses for nearly 13 months while mounting a successful Supreme Court challenge to the Jim Crow law that enforced their second-class status on the public bus system. Rosa Parks' funeral service, seven hours long, was held at the Greater Grace Temple Church on November 2nd. There are no immediate survivors. "He was an activist who believed in acting as well as speaking out against oppression. Mrs Parks refused. Three of them complied. She was 92 years old. Blacks had been arrested, and even killed, for disobeying bus drivers. Parks, her husband and her mother, Leona McCauley, moved to Detroit. "Paradoxically, her imprisonment opened the doors for our long journey to freedom.". "She was fed up," said Elaine Steele, a longtime friend and executive director of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development.

chapter, and she and her husband, Raymond, a barber, had taken part in voter registration drives. The truth, as she later explained, was that she was tired of being humiliated, of having to adapt to the byzantine rules, some codified as law and others passed on as tradition, that reinforced the position of blacks as something less than full human beings.

But when they learned that the girl was pregnant, they decided that she was an unsuitable symbol for their cause. In the last decade, Mrs. ", REPORTER:"Wasn't that a pretty frightening thing, to be arrested in Montgomery, Alabama? Blacks could sit in the middle rows until those seats were needed by whites. Her arrest was the answer to prayers for the Women's Political Council, which was set up in 1946 in response to the mistreatment of black bus riders, and for E.D. "So it was not a time for me to be planning to get arrested," she said in an interview in 1988. "She sat down in order that we might stand up," the Rev. Parks was arrested, convicted of violating the segregation laws and fined $10, plus $4 in court fees. Her public stance made her a symbol of the civil rights movement, but it also made it hard for her to get work in Alabama. 's coming election of officers. This is not the way I should be treated. They equate me along with Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth and ask if I knew them.". Parks's trial. She died of progressive dementia. Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man started the US civil rights movement in the mid 1950s, has died at the age of ninety-two. Rosa Lee Parks was forty-two years old when she made history. Her act of civil disobedience, what seems a simple gesture of defiance so many years later, was in fact a dangerous, even reckless move in 1950's Alabama. She was sitting on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, one day in 1955 when a white man demanded her seat. Parks's husband, Raymond, died in 1977. At just 19 years old, McCauley was in awe. defying the rules deliberately breaking the law, finedmade to pay some money as a punishment, triggered caused something to happen, started, boycott of the bus systema period when people decided not to use the buses as a form of protest, the civil rights movementthe struggle for freedom and equality for racial minorities in the United States, recalled that momentous dayremembered that important and historical day, Her public stanceThe actions that she took in public, a symbol of the civil rights movementsomething that represented the struggle for equality. Mrs. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen, even in Montgomery, Alabama.". "I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.". Mrs. She retired in 1988. Parks unless he realizes that eventually the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, 'I can take it no longer."'. The rear was for blacks, who made up more than 75 percent of the bus system's riders. "Don't ride the buses to work, to town, to school, or anywhere on Monday," the leaflet said.

Mrs. But the violence escalated: snipers fired into buses as well as Dr. King's home, and bombs were tossed into churches and into the homes of ministers. Parks worked as a seamstress until 1965, when Representative John Conyers Jr. hired her as an aide for his Congressional office in Detroit. As Rosa Parks prepared to return to Alabama State Teacher’s College, her mother also became ill, therefore, she continued to take care of their home and care for her mother while her brother, Sylvester, worked outside of the home.

Parks was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Rosa Parks dies Rosa Parks dies in her Detroit home on October 24th.