Wow I just heard a breaking news thingy that Rosa Parks has passed away. 
That's so sad.
Local 4: Civil Rights Pioneer Rosa Parks Dead
POSTED: 9:35 pm EDT October 24, 2005
Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks has died, Local 4 has learned.
Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955 landed her in jail and sparked a bus boycott that is considered the start of the modern civil rights movement.
Parks, was born on Feb. 4, 1913. She now lives in Detroit.
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