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<DIV class=fourteen><B>Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks dies</B></DIV>
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<P class=storytext>Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man started the US civil rights movement in the mid 1950s, has died at the age of ninety-two. Her cause was supported by a little known Reverend, Martin Luther King Jnr. This report from Laura Trevelyan:</P>
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<DIV class=storytext>Rosa Lee Parks was forty-two years old when she made history. She was sitting on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, one day in 1955 when a white man demanded her seat. Mrs Parks refused, <B><SPAN title="deliberately breaking the law">defying the rules</SPAN></B> which required blacks to give up their seats to whites. She was arrested and <B><SPAN title="made to pay some money as a punishment">fined</SPAN></B>. Her treatment <B><SPAN title="caused something to happen, started">triggered</SPAN></B> a three hundred and eighty one day <B><SPAN title="a period when people decided not to use the buses as a form of protest">boycott of the bus system</SPAN></B>, organised by the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior. The Montgomery bus boycott <B><SPAN title="was the beginning of">marked the birth of</SPAN></B><B><SPAN title="the struggle for freedom and equality for racial minorities in the United States"> the civil rights movement</SPAN></B>. Seven years later, Rosa Parks <B><SPAN title="remembered that important and historical day">recalled that momentous day</SPAN></B>:</DIV>
<P class=storytext>ROSA LEE PARKS:<BR>"The driver said that if I refused to leave the seat, he would have to call the police and I told him just call the police, which he did and when they came, they placed me under arrest."</P>
<P class=storytext>REPORTER:<BR>"Wasn't that a pretty frightening thing, to be arrested in Montgomery, Alabama?"</P>
<P class=storytext><!-- end_story -->ROSA LEE PARKS:<BR>"No, I wasn't afraid at all."</P>
<P class=storytext>REPORTER:<BR>"You weren't frightened, why weren't you frightened?"</P>
<P class=storytext>ROSA LEE PARKS:<BR>"I don't know why I wasn't, but I didn't feel afraid. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen, even in Montgomery, Alabama."</P>
<P class=storytext><B><SPAN title="The actions that she took in public">Her public stance</SPAN></B> made her <B><SPAN title="something that represented the struggle for equality">a symbol of the civil rights movement</SPAN></B>, but it also made it hard for her to get work in Alabama. She and her husband, Raymond, moved to Detroit, where she worked as <B><SPAN title="an assistant">an aide</SPAN></B> in a Democratic Congressman's office. Upon her retirement, Mrs Parks devoted her time to an institute she and her husband founded, aimed at developing leadership among young people. Rosa Parks will be remembered for the way her quiet determination in the face of injustice helped change America.</P>
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