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Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dead At 92
ClickOnDetroit ^ | October 24 2005

Posted on 10/24/2005 6:58:25 PM PDT by jmc1969

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died, Local 4 has learned.

Parks, 92, reportedly died around 7 p.m. Monday at St. John Hospital on Detroit's east side.

Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 landed her in jail and sparked a bus boycott that is considered the start of the modern civil rights movement. The bus is on display at the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn.

Parks, was born on Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala. She lived in Detroit.


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To: rdb3
Read the Publisher's Weekly description here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1891620525/103-1060893-7807851?v=glance

Also from Wikipedia:

"He later retracted the International Jew and the Protocols. On January 7, 1942, Henry Ford wrote a public letter to the ADL denouncing hatred against the Jews and expressing his hope that anti-Jewish hatred would cease for all time."
221 posted on 10/25/2005 8:10:25 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

wow


222 posted on 10/25/2005 8:10:54 AM PDT by cyborg (I'm on the 24 plan having the best day ever.)
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To: Revolting cat!
"(Sorry, I'm really trying hard not to laugh and not be nasty!) "

What is so funny?

223 posted on 10/25/2005 8:11:23 AM PDT by Chong (Please Don't Souter US, Mr. President!)
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To: jmc1969

May you Rest In Peace, Ms. Parks.


224 posted on 10/25/2005 8:12:43 AM PDT by Chong (Please Don't Souter US, Mr. President!)
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To: cyborg

You are wrong.

Who approved the wire tapping and FBI survellance of the civil rights movement (i.e. Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conferance)?

Answer: New Englanders such as Democrats and J. Edgar Hoover.

"In October 1963, Attorney General Robert Kennedy approved an FBI request for permission to install wiretaps on phones in Dr. King's home and in the SCLC's New York and Atlanta offices to determine the extent, if any, of "communist influence in the racial situation."


225 posted on 10/25/2005 8:25:50 AM PDT by BlackRain ("Oh, I am fortune's fool!")
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To: Borges
Thank you very much, Borges.


If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.

226 posted on 10/25/2005 8:39:11 AM PDT by rdb3 (Have you ever stopped to think, but forgot to start again?)
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To: Charles Henrickson
"Bubba will be all over this like white on rice (so to speak). After all, he and Miss Parks rode the bus together, didn't they?"

And Algore was driving, wasn't he?

227 posted on 10/25/2005 8:42:30 AM PDT by Redbob
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To: ARealMothersSonForever
Her beliefs were Marxist.

Prove it.

228 posted on 10/25/2005 8:49:21 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Welsh Rabbit

"...I wonder why she picked Detroit to retire?"

She had been employed for some time by rep John Conyers


229 posted on 10/25/2005 8:54:25 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: BlackRain; cyborg

Commies are exploiters. It's what they do. When there is nothing to exploit, they do poorly. Unfortunately, there was plenty to exploit in the 50's. Sad. Could have been avoided. The bus system needed boycotting.


230 posted on 10/25/2005 8:55:03 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

A lot of people of the 1930s generation had a fling with Marxism. I would very much doubt that she had anything to do with the communist party in the last 40 years or so.


231 posted on 10/25/2005 8:55:14 AM PDT by Borges
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To: BlackRain; cyborg
...to determine the extent, if any...

You see, seeking information on a premise is NOT the same as accepting the truth of that premise.

RFK's motivation might just as well been to refute the idea that "the commies are behind the nigras wanting their rights!"

232 posted on 10/25/2005 8:56:28 AM PDT by Petronski (The name "cyborg" to me means complete love and incredible fun. I'm filled with joy.)
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To: Westlander; ShadowDancer

You're an encyclopedia of Kwame quotes. Writing a book?


233 posted on 10/25/2005 8:56:38 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: cyborg; rdb3; Petronski
they're coming out of the woodwork.

It's amazing how these people act like they're just mouthing off in the privacy of their own living room. They don't seem to realize that they're revealing their lunacy to millions of people - or they just don't care. I say let 'em come out so we'll know who they are. They're vastly outnumbered, anyway.

234 posted on 10/25/2005 8:59:08 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Larry Lucido; BlackRain; cyborg
Commies are exploiters. It's what they do.

True. It's also true that many who were initially drawn to communism because of its egalitarian promises soon left it in disgust.

235 posted on 10/25/2005 9:03:04 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Richard Wright comes to mind. And he seemed to have been as die hard as they get.


236 posted on 10/25/2005 9:04:25 AM PDT by Borges
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To: BlackRain

I can't believe you're posting that old, old picture. Lame and irrelevant.


237 posted on 10/25/2005 9:07:04 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Yep. I threw out the names Chambers, Cleaver and Horowitz early in the thread. The "once-a-commie-always-a-commie" folks haven't cared to comment. Hope they don't find out what organization a certain Bishop of Rome once belonged to in his youth.


238 posted on 10/25/2005 9:09:13 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
Now in paperback!

Kwame Kwotes: You Ain't Got A Thing If You Ain't Got That Bling

239 posted on 10/25/2005 9:10:32 AM PDT by ShadowDancer (Stupid people make my brain sad.)
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To: EveningStar
They don't seem to realize that they're revealing their lunacy to millions of people - or they just don't care. I say let 'em come out so we'll know who they are. They're vastly outnumbered, anyway.

I agree with you. Let 'em continue. I find it very entertaining.


If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.

240 posted on 10/25/2005 9:20:17 AM PDT by rdb3 (Have you ever stopped to think, but forgot to start again?)
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