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A Salute to Rosa Parks
The woman who quietly refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., a half-century ago is remembered as a role model and an icon of the civil rights movement.
Barack Obama and his family attended services yesterday at one of the oldest historically black churches in Washington, thrilling a congregation that honored the president-elect for advancing the legacy of such civil-rights icons as Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Civil Rights Icon Dies at Age 92Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday, Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. Gallery
For Rosa Parks, an Overflowing TributeAmerica's mighty and meek converged in downtown Washington yesterday afternoon for a tribute to Rosa Parks, the civil rights matriarch who died last week at age 92. Gallery
Guided by a LegacyTens of thousands of people waited patiently in line at the U.S. Capitol to pay their respects to a woman most had never met, never seen, or never heard speak. Yet Rosa Parks had impacted their lives so that they had felt as if they knew her and were guided by her actions and legacy. |
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