RIP Rosa Parks
October 23, 2005 
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks died today in Michigan at the age of 92.
Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92:
Rosa Parks, whose act of civil disobedience in 1955 inspired the modern civil rights movement, died Monday in Detroit, Michigan. She was 92.
Parks’ moment in history began in December 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system by blacks that was organized by a 26-year-old Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
What a tremendous inspiration Rosa Parks was for this country and what a difference one woman was able to make.
(Reflections on her life, associated coverage, and more to come tomorrow.)
