Civil rights icon Rosa Parks died last night in Detroit, Michigan. She was 92.Parks has been called "mother of the civil rights movement" for the day in December 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system by blacks that was organized by Martin Luther King Jr. That boycott led to a court ruling desegregating public transportation in Montgomery and, eventually, the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Given the lurking threat to our civil rights by some Homeland Security proposals, this might be a good time to read Park's autobiography, My Story. You can find used copies of it here.
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