Rosa Parks Dies

Rosa Parks, a Baptist laywoman at the forefront of the civil rights movement, died of natural causes Oct. 24 at her home in Detroit. Parks, 92, died just a few weeks shy of the 50th anniversary of her Dec. 1, 1955, arrest for refusing to surrender her seat to a white man on a segregated bus -- an event that changed the nation.
Rosa Parks will always be remembered as a courageous woman who quietly confronted injustice, and in so doing, she changed a nation.