Rosa Parks, founding symbol of Civil Rights Movement, dies 10 years ago this hour (Oct 24 2005)


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(Monday, October 24, 2005, between 7:00-8:00 p.m. EDT)Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s, died today in her apartment on the east side of the Detroit. She was 92 years old.