Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dies At 92…


First Posted: 10-24-05 10:59 PM   |   Updated: 03-28-08 02:43 AM

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Associated Press:

Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92.

Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, said Karen Morgan, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. John Conyers (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich.

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