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Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks, 92, Dies (AP)

 

Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the Congressional Medal of Freedom in Detroit, in a Nov. 28, 1999 photo. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died of natural causes in her Detroit home Monday, Oct. 24, 2005, she was 92.  (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, file)AP - Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no.




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