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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: jmc1969
A great woman with dignity and a grounded sense of reality.
RIP and God Bless, Mrs. Parks.
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posted on
10/24/2005 7:51:41 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Let's tear down the observatory so we never get hit by a meteor again!)
To: jmc1969
God bless her soul. She was an American hero.
82
posted on
10/24/2005 7:52:38 PM PDT
by
Purrcival
(Hammer, PLEASE hurt 'em!)
To: jmc1969
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posted on
10/24/2005 7:56:09 PM PDT
by
kublia khan
(Absolute war brings total victory)
To: jmc1969
As Aaron Nevilles' song for you goes "Thank you, Miss Rosa" . Rest in peace.
84
posted on
10/24/2005 7:56:33 PM PDT
by
WasDougsLamb
(Just my opinion.Go easy on me........)
To: Welsh Rabbit
She was a great woman, but I wonder why she picked Detroit to retire?
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Milton Friedman lives in San Francisco...
RIP Rosa.
85
posted on
10/24/2005 7:56:55 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/secondaryproblemsofsocialism.htm)
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To: billorites
"Wow. Now I'm feeling old." Don't feel alone ...
Yeppers - Bless ya Rosa - I was massivly bigoted back then - still somewhat am - now - I just wanna know who is in my "tribe" - http://www.ejectejecteject.com/ - sleep well Rosa - you opened my eyes girl. Thx ... B
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posted on
10/24/2005 7:57:26 PM PDT
by
Bobibutu
To: calrighty
Rest in peace, Rosa Parks. You left the world in better shape than you found it, due to your good works.
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posted on
10/24/2005 7:59:43 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(De gustibus non est disputandum.)
To: MNJohnnie
"Most people forget, Rosa stood up against GOVERMENT sanctioned discrimination."
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Bears repeating. Such is the evil nature of government and an example of what it can do when given the power to do something.
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posted on
10/24/2005 8:01:42 PM PDT
by
traviskicks
(http://www.neoperspectives.com/secondaryproblemsofsocialism.htm)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
I know one thing, if anybody ever tries to rob me of my dignity....LOOK OUT
Homepage NRA BUMP!
91
posted on
10/24/2005 8:02:08 PM PDT
by
calrighty
(Taglines for sale or let......1 liners 50 cents! C'mon troops, finish em off!!)
To: jmc1969
In a lot of countries she'd have been taken out and shot. In this one the simple act of refusing to take a seat in the back of a bus was a profoundly revolutionary act. The ripples changed our world. That's worth thinking about.
God bless, Rosa Parks. In heaven you can sit wherever you want to.
To: ZOTnot
Ms Parks gave those troubling times dignity and class. I'll never forget her courage. She surely was trembling inside but as John Wayne said ~~ "Courage is being afraid but saddling up anyway".
Rest in peace Ms Parks
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posted on
10/24/2005 8:03:01 PM PDT
by
daybreakcoming
(May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
To: rdb3
Your grandmother is living history. I hope she kept some good memoirs.
94
posted on
10/24/2005 8:03:31 PM PDT
by
calrighty
(Taglines for sale or let......1 liners 50 cents! C'mon troops, finish em off!!)
To: solitas
Another one bites the dust?
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
95
posted on
10/24/2005 8:03:42 PM PDT
by
rdb3
(Have you ever stopped to think, but forgot to start again?)
To: jmc1969
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posted on
10/24/2005 8:03:43 PM PDT
by
tioga
To: jmc1969
97
posted on
10/24/2005 8:04:36 PM PDT
by
NeoCaveman
(In DC, Pork is what's for dinner)
To: daybreakcoming
""Courage is being afraid but saddling up anyway""
I can't count the times I have been afraid, but we persevere, anyway..
98
posted on
10/24/2005 8:05:03 PM PDT
by
calrighty
(Taglines for sale or let......1 liners 50 cents! C'mon troops, finish em off!!)
To: Welsh Rabbit; All
I think she move there she was getting death threat in Mongotmery that what I hear long time ago
RIP ROSA
99
posted on
10/24/2005 8:05:07 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
("Not everybody in, it, for truth, justice, and the American way,"= Det Lennie Briscoe)
To: Larry Lucido
It is a particularly cruel irony that the street named after an American icon is a ghetto defined by most if they saw it. It is about hopelessness, despair, ruins. Liberalism defined in full, dead, color. And the local electorate is only trading one idiot for another for a mayor while the canuck gov slobbers on this same mentality.
It pains me to see this living local history continue to decay.
100
posted on
10/24/2005 8:05:15 PM PDT
by
quantim
(I just reek of the antithesis of liberalism. They smell me and scatter like rats.)
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