ROSA LOUISE PARKS | 1913-2005

[JaneDead]

Parks, the mother of the civil rights movement, died about 7:20 p.m. Monday at her home in the Riverfront Apartments in Detroit.

"She went away peacefully," said her longtime friend and spokesperson, Elaine Eason Steele. Steele and Parks' physician, Dr. Sharon Oliver, were with Parks when she died, Steele said.

Steele said she, federal Appeals Court Damon Keith and former Detroit Judge Adam Shakoor would make the funeral arrangements with the family. She said they would release a joint statement today.

The Swanson Funeral Home in Detroit is handling the arrangements

[JaneDead]

http://www.freep.com/news/metro/parksobit25e_20051025.htm

[Msterbeau]

Quite a woman. =(

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

I would call her a normal woman who did not want to move because she was tired. Rosa said time and time again she did not do it as a protest, she was just too tired to walk to the back of the bus.

Everyone else used the "event" as a ralleying point for the bus boycott and civil rights movment.

[Msterbeau]

I would call her a normal woman who did not want to move because she was tired.  Rosa said time and time again she did not do it as a protest, she was just too tired to walk to the back of the bus. 

Everyone else used the "event" as a ralleying point for the bus boycott and civil rights movment.

True. But she had determination and spirit. I choose to celebrate that about her.

[ZhukovCodeslinger]

well I celebrate Martin Luther King!

oh and Lothar Von Richtoven too!

[Msterbeau]

well I celebrate Martin Luther King!

oh and Lothar Von Richtoven too!

I celebrate Gibby Hanes. :blink :laughing :whistling

[The_Dark]

But she had determination and spirit.

No, she was too tired to move, by her own admission.

[JaneDead]

blah blah blah

she was tired... she was a pioneer... who cares... poor old lady is dead.

just pour some beer on the curb for a dead homey, aight

[Msterbeau]

No, she was too tired to move, by her own admission.

So she didn't know she had determination and spirit. She still had it.

[Nienna]

I have alot of respect for that woman. May she rest in peace.

[Homicidalheathen]

She was probably to tired to move because she worked her ass off all day to make half of what a white person would back then for the same sort of work, I imagine.

[JaneDead]

blah blah blah

she was tired... she was a pioneer... who cares... poor old lady is dead.

just pour some beer on the curb for a dead homey, aight

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i didn't mean this disrespectfully either

i respect her and what she meant to a lot of people.

[Msterbeau]

i didn't mean this disrespectfully either 

i respect her and what she meant to a lot of people.

You're going straight to hell for those insensituve comments.

[Shade Everdark]

Conscious or indirect, Rosa Parks's action was the catalyst, the reagent that set the beaker boiling over, and set great things in motion. Whether she wanted to be that icon or not, she was. And I respect her for that.

In fact, I probably respect her more for not wanting to be anything but steadfast.

[the eternal]

here here!

[DarkVampire]

So sad. =(

[JaneDead]

Conscious or indirect, Rosa Parks's action was the catalyst, the reagent that set the beaker boiling over, and set great things in motion.  Whether she wanted to be that icon or not, she was.  And I respect her for that.

In fact, I probably respect her more for not wanting to be anything but steadfast.

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exactly. my thoughts exactly.

[Dark Angel]

She worked as an activist for civil rights after the history changing bus protest, so even if you just think she was tired and lazy you can still give her credit for her work thru the 60's, 70's and 1980's and her protesting of rap music in the 1990's.

[Crazed Vampyress]

I would call her a normal woman who did not want to move because she was tired.  Rosa said time and time again she did not do it as a protest, she was just too tired to walk to the back of the bus. 

Everyone else used the "event" as a ralleying point for the bus boycott and civil rights movment.

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ill give you she was tired and has stated that repeatedly. but despite whatever modesty she shows, you have to concede most people in her position would have just drug themselves to the back, tired and all. not everyone has the courage to just hold their ground, which is really what she did, reguardless of whatever the reason.