Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies - New York Times

"Rosa Parks, a black seamstress whose refusal to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., almost 50 years ago grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's, died yesterday at her home in Detroit. She was 92 years old." (more) Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies - New York Times

Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience
December 1, 1955 - americaslibrary.gov