Rosa Parks Dies.

Wow, this is a sad day in civil rights history.
What a brave, brave woman. RIP.

Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dies at 92
Associated Press
8 minutes ago

DETROIT - Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92.

Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, said Karen Morgan, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich.

Mrs. 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 neighborhoods 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.

Mrs. 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 Mrs. Parks was jailed. She also was fined $14.

Speaking in 1992, she said history too often maintains "that my feet were hurting and I didn't know why I refused to stand up when they told me. But the real reason of my not standing up was I felt that I had a right to be treated as any other passenger. We had endured that kind of treatment for too long."

Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system organized by a then little-known Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who later earned the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.

R.I.P.
R.L.P.

She did so much. It's sad to see these kinds of people die.

Yes what a brave woman. She lived a long life at least. Now I gotta download and listen to Outkast- Rosa Parks.

I just found out 20 minutes ago on a website, Its so sad, Rosa Parks made out world better, without her, we might even still have slavery That is a scary thought.

RIP
To one of the greatest Women alive

Just saw it on the internet. Very sad. RIP

R.I.P. Rosa.

One of the most, if not the most, influencial women in history.

Who?

Just kidding.

RIP

whoa...
rip... crazy shit. though i had thought she died already....
good to have lived longer.

RIP

not many people here (the Philippines, not NLSC) knew her but I've heard a little bit of what she's done

Sad thing was, the first time I heard about her was in a MadTV skit in her honor May she be remembered for defiantly sparking a change in America.

R.I.P.
Living through the

Great Depression
Slavery Days
Civil Right Movements
Martin Luther King's whole life
Freedom from Slavery
Children reading textbooks about you
9/11
Seeing blacks so free they call each other "nigga" now
Hurricane Camille, Hugo, Andrew, Katrina...basically all the big hurricanes

all of that in 1 lifetime. She better be on the front page of the papers tommorrow instead of the hurricane.

all of that in 1 lifetime. She better be on the front page of the papers tommorrow instead of the hurricane.

You can fit more than one thing on the front page.

I think he meant the main headline.

she had more balls than men four times her size.
RIP

Wtf, I didn't even know she was alive. I thought she died a hundred years ago.

Whoa! The DJ Show I'm listening is spinning "Rosa Parks" by Outkast!

Anyways, R.I.P.

Sad thing was, the first time I heard about her was in a MadTV skit in her honor

I think I had a similar experience

Whoa! The DJ Show I'm listening is spinning "Rosa Parks" by Outkast!

Anyways, R.I.P.

And on an almost unrelated note...

They did the same thing when Rick James died. Instead of mixing random rap/r&B they dedicated the last 15-20 Minutes of the show to Rick James by playing some songs by him and or duets he was in.

BTW, the show is live right now and so was the Rick James deal.

R.I.P.

I thought she was an actress

all of that in 1 lifetime. She better be on the front page of the papers tommorrow instead of the hurricane.

You can fit more than one thing on the front page.

I think he meant the main headline.

yeah i meant headline. Anyway she did make front cover alone

Rosa Parks made out world better, without her, we might even still have slavery That is a scary thought.

Yeah, if only she wasn't born nearly 50 years after slavery had been constitutionally outlawed.

RIP. She was definitely one of the more bigger African Americans that helped spark change.

RIP. Such a simple act of defiance, yet one so historically significant.