Rosa Parks hands in her bus pass

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Civil rights champion Rosa Parks dies

Staff and agencies
Tuesday October 25, 2005

Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, who has died aged 92, pictured here smiling during a Capitol Hill ceremony in 1996 at which she was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal. Photograph: AP/Khue Bui

Rosa Parks, whose refusal half a century ago to give up her seat on a bus to a white man sparked the US civil rights movement, has died aged 92.

Ms Parks was at home with close friends by her side when she died last night, her lawyer, Gregory Reed, said.

The seamstress's defiance of segregation laws on an Alabama bus changed the course of American history and led to her becoming known as the "mother of the civil rights movement".

[Anisa]

Yep! RIP Rosa Parks. She had the guts to speak up when many just put up.

I wish more people would speak up especially to those gits who are happy to sit on public transport whilst an old lady struggles to hold on!

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