Passing of a Legend

From the Associated Press:

Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, dies at 92
DETROIT (AP) - Civil rights icon Rosa Parks has died of natural causes at her Michigan home. That's according to a spokeswoman for Michigan Congressman John Conyers.

Parks earned the title of "mother of the civil rights movement" in 1955 when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. The act of defiance launched the modern civil rights movement and was to change the course of American history.

Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system organized by a then little-known Baptist minister, the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior, who later earned the Nobel Peace Prize for his work.

Parks and her husband were forced to move to Michigan because of threats, harassment and because they couldn't find work. She worked as an aide in Congressman Conyers office from 1965 to 1988. Parks was 92.