Special report - Rosa Parks: Mother of the Movement

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Honoring a humble hero
'An ordinary woman who did an extraordinary thing'
To the rest of the world, Rosa Parks was a civil rights icon. At her church, she was Mrs. Parks, the gentle woman in the second pew who never stopped fighting. 10/26/05

Parks made a difference, but changes are still needed
The woman who symbolized the civil rights movement lived the last 48 years of her life in a city that has come to symbolize what she fought against. 10/26/05

Influence links generations
From young children to public officials, Rosa Parks and her public defiance of Jim Crow laws helped shape the lives of countless people: 10/26/05

Memories flow from reporter's notebook
Rosa Parks was one of the first people my family met when we fled to Detroit from Mississippi in the early 1960s. 10/26/05

Sympathies pour in on Web site
The tributes started to pour in from all over the nation virtually the minute Rosa Parks' death was announced Monday night. 10/26/05

Scholarship foundation helps teens reach dreams
DETROIT -- Though the world knew her best for her historic civil rights stand, Rosa Parks' legacy also includes opening the doors of opportunity for young people. 10/26/05

Detroit plans ways to remember a heroine
DETROIT -- Even as the city mourned her death, plans were being laid Tuesday to continue the legacy of Rosa Parks, who adopted Detroit as her home in 1957. 10/26/05

Song, film celebrate Parks' role
For nearly 50 years, civil rights heroine Rosa Parks has been an iconic figure in American history, inspiring books, made-for-TV movies, documentaries and even songs. 10/26/05

Death refocuses black history efforts
WASHINGTON -- The death of civil rights legend Rosa Parks has focused new attention on efforts to construct museums and monuments around the country in honor of African-American history. 10/26/05

Ala. museum re-creates confrontation
Rosa Parks' contribution to the modern civil rights movement is enshrined in the Rosa Parks Library and Museum, located in the city that once arrested her for defying segregation laws, Montgomery, Ala. 10/26/05

In ironic twist, Parks school changes name
DETROIT -- Just hours before learning of her death, parents and teachers removed a portrait of Rosa Parks that hung for years in the office of a Detroit Public School that still has her name on signs outside. 10/26/05

Health, legal woes took toll
DETROIT - Rosa Parks' last decade of life in Detroit was a difficult one, marked by health and legal battles. 10/26/05

What America's leaders are saying
10/26/05

What Metro Detroiters say
10/26/05

Tuesday, Oct. 25
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
10/26/05

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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