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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:53 pm    Post subject: Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92 Reply with quote

Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at 92
Long known as the 'mother of the civil rights movement'

Tuesday, October 25, 2005; Posted: 12:20 p.m. EDT (16:20 GMT)


Rosa Parks earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Source: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/25/parks.obit/index.html

(CNN) -- 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. (See video on an activist's life and times -- 2:52)

The boycott led to a court ruling desegregating public transportation in Montgomery, but it wasn't until the 1964 Civil Rights Act that all public accommodations nationwide were desegregated.

Facing regular threats and having lost her department store job because of her activism, Parks moved from Alabama to Detroit in 1957. She later joined the staff of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat.

Conyers, who first met Parks during the early days of the civil rights struggle, recalled Monday that she worked on his original congressional staff when he first was elected to the House of Representatives in 1964.

"I think that she, as the mother of the new civil rights movement, has left an impact not just on the nation, but on the world," he told CNN in a telephone interview. "She was a real apostle of the nonviolence movement."

He remembered her as someone who never raised her voice -- an eloquent voice of the civil rights movement.

"You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene -- just a very special person," he said, adding that "there was only one" Rosa Parks.

Gregory Reed, a longtime friend and attorney, said Parks died between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. of natural causes. He called Parks "a lady of great courage."

Parks co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development to help young people pursue educational opportunities, get them registered to vote and work toward racial peace.

"As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless -- there is much to be done, and people need to work together," she once said.

Even into her 80s, she was active on the lecture circuit, speaking at civil rights groups and accepting awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999.

"This medal is encouragement for all of us to continue until all have rights," she said at the June 1999 ceremony for the latter medal.

Parks was the subject of the documentary "Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks," which received a 2002 Oscar nomination for best documentary short.

In April, Parks and rap duo OutKast settled a lawsuit over the use of her name on a CD released in 1998. (Full story)



When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., her action sparked the modern civil rights movement. NBC's Lester Holt narrates the story of the movement in the 1950s.
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Tracey Turbett of the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Mich., right, talks to high school students aboard the bus where Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat to a white man a half-century ago, at the museum on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005. Parks died Monday evening at her home of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)


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Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks is shown in December 2001 at a ceremony honoring the 46th anniversary of her arrest for civil disobedience at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:07 pm    Post subject: 6 Brave Daughters of IRAN Reply with quote

What would happen to Rosa Parks if she had born in Iran and asked for her rights from Islamist Clerical regime ?

6 Brave Daughters of IRAN and Freedom
As Part of Million Victims of Islamist Regime in Past 26 Years


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bless their soul.


now it's a really good thing that the brits didn't get to her brain, manipulated her with their separatist propaganda, in those days! or financed and equipped the movement to establish a new country for millions of african americans, then add it to their colonies!

perhaps they are waiting to see how it goes with the ahvazis, and if it was successful, then they form a "friendship" with the black community of America!

I wonder what and how they would name it, knowing they wouldn't want the word america in there.

The British - Black Friendship Society!

it's just as oximoronic as british ahvazi friendship!
given how both communities were enslaved, abused and suppressed by the brits at one point (to say the least).

are people all loosing their memory? or is it just the brits! lol
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Liberty, when you say "the Brits", just who do you mean? Surely you know that in Britain, as in other democracies, different people gain and lose power, and the policies in force consequently change. Harold Wilson is followed by Margaret Thatcher is followed by John Major is followed by Tony Blair, etc.

Are you claiming that *every single* government since 1900 or whenever, regardless of party, followed the same line toward Iran, or indeed that the British Crown has more than the very limited and circumscribed power allowed it under British constitutional practice? Do you claim that these policies are foisted on each government by the permanent bureaucrats. If you have any evidence for any of these things, I'm sure the vigorous and free British press or some of it, would be very interested.

Otherwise, your failure to distinguish between any British governments is like lumping Jimmy Carter in with Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 7:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dear Cyrus,

Thanks for posting this tribute to an American Freedom fighter. It shows that indeed an individual can make a difference in society, regardless of position or wealth.

It was the spark that changed America for the better, and I wonder often what will that spark will be in Iran....as a catalyst to change.

ba sepaas,

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 12:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rasker wrote:
Liberty, when you say "the Brits", just who do you mean?


dear Rasker, it's not up to me to find out who within the whole of british monarchy, or country of England or the United Kingdom was involved in the crimes commited by that country. it is up to an international tribunal for crimes against humanity. and it's up to the citizens of that country to voice their concerns, condemn previous crimes, ask their officials to offer appologies to nations under suppression by their country at any point in history. and hopefully even try to help those nations to revover from it.

none of this is my duty. if britain has any true journalists as you claim, it's their duty to find out.

just as any sign of natzi propaganda is condemned by the citizens of Germany, EU, and U.S, it is up to the citizens to find out who was behind any crime committed IN THEIR NAME, and clear their name by introducing the shadow powers, or figures behind such acts, and put them on stand.

until that happens, crimes are committed in the name of britain and brits. and who am I to differenciate.

just as all IRI crimes were done in the name of Iran and even politicians worldwide as well as the media continually blamed all of Iran for it, and showed a dark picture of my nation, UNTIL the Iranians voiced their anger against the fascist rulers, and pointed out to the world that THIS IS NOT US! that IRI is not Iran, neither the representative of people of Iran!

the brits can do the same and should do the same. why don't they condemn previous crimes, identify those behind it, and condemn the fascists who suppressed many nations the world over?

that's a question you need to ask them, not me.
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