Parks died of natural causes on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92, in her apartment on the east side of Detroit. She and her husband never had children and she outlived her only sibling.

3 days ago · Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States.

Jan 21, 2025 · When Did Rosa Parks Die and What Were the Circumstances? Rosa Parks passed away on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92. Her death marked the end of a remarkable life dedicated to the pursuit of justice and equality.

Oct 4, 2023 · She died in October 2005 at age 92. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents, James and Leona McCauley, separated when Parks was 2....

Oct 25, 2005 · Rosa Parks, the woman known as the "mother of the civil rights movement," has died. Parks turned the course of American history by refusing in 1955 to give up her seat on a bus for a...

Oct. 24, 2005 -- Civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks died today at age 92. Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Parks' refusal to give up a seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white person in the segregated South is thought to be the beginning of the public fight for equal rights.

Oct 25, 2005 · Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man was a watershed moment in the civil rights movement, died Monday at her home in Michigan at the age of 92.

Oct 25, 2005 · Rosa Parks, the black woman whose 1955 protest action in Alabama marked the start of the modern US civil rights movement, has died at the age of 92. Mrs Parks' refusal to give up her seat to...

Oct 25, 2005 · DETROIT — Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern U.S. civil rights movement, has died at age 92.

Oct 25, 2005 · 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...