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[L]ife for Rosa Parks and her husband became very difficult. The both of them lost their jobs. After the trial, they moved to Hampton, Virginia and then to Detroit. Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress. In 1965, she was appointed as a secretary and receptionist in the congressional office of the African American U.S. Representative John Conyers. She worked there till she retired in 1988.
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Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005 at her home on the east side of Detroit while she was taking a nap. Rosa had suffered from dementia for several years. She lived in the Riverfront Apartments complex that overlooked the Detroit River and the border with Ontario, Canada.
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Rosa Parks, the soft-spoken black woman who became a world-renowned symbol of the struggle for social justice, passed October 24 in Detroit at the age of 92. Condolences and accolades from the powerful and well-known as well as the common man and woman on the street immediately poured in from around the world.
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Rosa Parks resided in Detroit until she died at the age of ninety-two on October 24, 2005, about 19:00 EDT, in her apartment on the east side of the city. She had been diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia.
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Virtually no history of the modern civil rights movement in the United States fails to mention the role of Rosa Parks. She tells her own story in The Autobiography of Rosa Parks (1990). Others relate her history in a book entitled Don't Ride the Bus on Monday by Louise Meriwether (1973) and in two children's books, one by Eloise Greenfield, Rosa Parks (1973) and another by Kai Friese, Rosa Parks (1990). Among several interesting works specifically relating to the boycott is Jo Ann Robinson's The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It (1987). Also see the Detroit News (August 29, 1997, and September 28, 1997).
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