Rosa Parks later became a civil rights icon. After the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Rosa lost her job and her husband quit his. Rosa and her husband moved to Hampton,Virginia and then later to Detroit, Michigan. She kept a job as a seamstress until 1965 and was then hired by Michigan Representitive. John Coyners hired her as a secretary for his office in Detroit. She kept the same job until her retirement in 1988. Just before her retirement, Rosa Parks helped find the Rosa and Raymond Institute for Self Development in 1987. The Institute was dedicated to her husband who had died in 1977. Rosa Parks also wrote two books of her own. The first one, published in 1992, was named Rosa Parks: My Story. It was an autobiography about her life before the bus boycott. Later in 1995, she published Quiet Strength which focused on faith in her life. Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005 at about 7:00 PM eastern time. She was in her apartment in Detriot. Her tomb was first taken to St. Paul Methodist Episcopal church in Montgomery, Alabama. After a memorial service she was then taken to Washington D.C. were almost 50,000 people viewed her in the Capitol Rotunda. Rosa Parks was buried in the Detroit Woodlawn Cemetary between her husband and her mother. Text & html: Kara A., Ink Drawing:
N.F., Julian Middle School Bibliography: "Rosa Parks." Wikipedea. 17 Mar. 2006. Winter 2006 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks>. |
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