Rosa Parks Passed Away

News is starting to come in that civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has passed away at age 92. May her memory live on forever.

Parks, Rosa Louise, born in 1913, African American civil rights activist. In 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her action led to the Montgomery bus strike, which was the first large-scale, organized protest against segregation that used nonviolent tactics. Rosa Parks’s personal act of defiance opened a decisive chapter in the civil rights movement in the United States. Microsoft Encarta