Rosa Parks dies at 92
{{date|October 25, 2005}}
[[Image:RosaParks-BillClinton.jpg|thumb|right|Parks with former U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]]]]
[[w:Rosa Parks|Rosa Parks]], the [[w:African American|African American]] woman who served as a catalyst to the [[w:American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], died of natural causes on Monday night at her home in [[w:Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]], [[w:Michigan|Michigan]]. She was 92.

Parks was best known for her refusal to yield her seat to a white man who demanded it on a city bus. Her defiance led to the [[w:Montgomery Bus Boycott|Montgomery Bus Boycott]] in [[w:Alabama|Alabama]] in 1955.

She later worked on the Staff of U.S. Representative [[w:John Conyers|John Conyers]] ([[w:Democratic Party (United States)|D]]-[[w:Michigan|MI]]) who called her "a real apostle of the nonviolence movement" in an interview with ''CNN''.

Parks founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development and was politically active until well into her 80s. 

She received the two highest civilian awards in the U.S.; the [[w:Presidential Medal of Freedom|Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 1996 and the [[w:Congressional Gold Medal|Congressional Gold Medal]] in 1999.

Parks' health had been in decline in the last decade. She had become more and more reclusive to the public. Parks was confined to a wheelchair and suffered from dementia.

== Sources ==

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|title=Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92
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|date=October 25, 2005}}
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|title=Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dies at 92
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|date=October 24, 2005}}
*{{source|url=http://www.freep.com/news/latestnews/pm6900_20051024.htm
|title=Rosa Parks, civil rights heroine, is dead
|author=Cassandra Sprattling
|pub= Detroit Free Press
|date=October 24, 2005}}

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[[de:Symbolfigur der US-Bürgerrechtsbewegung, Rosa Parks, gestorben]]
[[fr:Décès de Rosa Parks, symbole de la lutte contre la ségrégation raciale]]
Parks with former U.S. President Bill Clinton
Rosa Parks, the African American woman who served as a catalyst to the American Civil Rights Movement, died of natural causes on Monday night at her home in Detroit, Michigan. She was 92.

Parks was best known for her refusal to yield her seat to a white man who demanded it on a city bus. Her defiance led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama in 1955.

She later worked on the Staff of U.S. Representative John Conyers (D-MI) who called her "a real apostle of the nonviolence movement" in an interview with CNN.

Parks founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development and was politically active until well into her 80s. 

She received the two highest civilian awards in the U.S.; the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999.

Parks' health had been in decline in the last decade. She had become more and more reclusive to the public. Parks was confined to a wheelchair and suffered from dementia.
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