Special report - Rosa Parks: Mother of the Movement

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Civil rights legend dies at age 92
Courage in the face of oppression; resistance in the face of injustice. That is the enduring legacy of Rosa Parks, whose defiance on a racially segregated Montgomery, Ala., bus lit the flame of the modern civil rights movement and inspired freedom movements from South Africa to Poland. 10/25/05

Leaders recall activist as a hero
Civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who changed history before retiring to a simple life in Detroit in 1957, was lauded Monday night as a prominent symbol of the greatest social revolution in the United States. 10/25/05

Defiant act changed a nation's history
Soon after 5 p.m. on Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks finished another day of altering clothes for 80 cents an hour at the Montgomery Fair department store. 10/25/05

Hardships honed her strong will
Rosa Parks was just a child when she first took a stand against a racial rebuke in her hometown of Tuskegee, Ala. 10/25/05

Determination, courage made protest a success
"They've arrested the wrong woman now," E.D. Nixon said the night of Rosa Parks' arrest. 10/25/05

Parks paved way for King's role
In a church in the poorest section of Montgomery, Ala., Martin Luther King Jr. met the woman who would change his life and catapult him to the status of civil rights icon. 10/25/05

Cause demanded ultimate sacrifice
It was August 1955 in Money, Miss. Showing off for his cousins, Emmett Till -- a 14-year-old from Chicago -- wanted to demonstrate how unafraid he was of white people. So he bought candy at the little grocery store, and turned to the pretty shop owner before pushing through the screen door. 10/25/05

Parks was a source of Detroit pride
DETROIT -- Her name graces one of the main streets in Detroit. 10/25/05

Betty DeRamus
Detroit cherishes indomitable spirit of civil rights pioneer
Rosa Parks wasn't shot down in her prime like other giants of the civil rights movement. She endured long enough to write books, reap honors and remind us again and again what can happen when someone with a made-up mind and a steely will rises up at the right hour. 10/25/05

The Henry Ford museum to honor Rosa Parks by draping bus in black
DEARBORN -- A Detroit-area museum is celebrating the legacy of Rosa Parks by draping in black crepe the 36-passenger bus on which Parks began the civil rights movement. 10/25/05

What America's leaders are saying
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Rosa Parks timeline
10/25/05

	"She will always have a special place in American history, and our nation thinks of Rosa Parks and her loved ones today." President Bush
	"She was an inspiration to me and to all who work for the day when we will be one America. May God bless her soul and may she rest in peace." Former President Clinton
	"She ignited a fire in this country. The world owes her a debt of gratitude." The Rev. Jesse Jackson
	"Rosa Parks has shown the awesome power of right over might in history's long journey for peace and freedom." The Rev. Jesse Jackson

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