Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights icon, dies aged 92

Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern US civil rights movement, died at age 92.

Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern US civil rights movement, died at age 92.

Mrs. Parks died yesterday at her home of natural causes, said Karen Morgan, a spokeswoman for John Conyers, a Michigan Democrat.

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