Rosa Parks, the mother of the movement that led to the dismantling of institutionalized segregation in the South, died Monday of natural causes at her home in Detroit. She was 92.
Parks became a symbol of human dignity when she was jailed for refusing to relinquish her bus seat to a white man when she rode home from work on the evening of Dec. 1, 1955.
She was a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, and the nation's highest civilian award. the Presidential Medal of Freedom