ROSA PARKS: 1913-2005 / Revered icon of civil rights / Rosa Parks’ refusal to give up seat to a white man set off Montgomery bus boycott in ’50s

Posted on: October 26th, 2005
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“Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, died Monday. She was 92 years old”

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