Rosa Parks earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom.(CNN) -- Rosa Parks, who helped trigger the civil rights movement in the 1950s, died Monday, her longtime friends told CNN. She was 92.
Parks inspired the civil rights movement when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955.
Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system by blacks and led to a court ruling desegregating public transportation in Montgomery.
Parks, facing regular threats and having lost her job, moved from Alabama to Michigan in 1957.
She joined the staff of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, in 1965, championing civil liberties. Parks later earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold 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.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/10/24/parks.obit/
R.I.P. to a great person
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Im young and thuggin, I dont give a f*ck.
He can make love to you, im gonna beat it up
I caused dreams that cause death that is my crime
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