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Rosa Parks (right) during President Clinton's State o f the Union address.
• 1987: Parks founds the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development in
Detroit, which offers career training for teenagers.
Honoring
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1988 : At age 75 Parks retires from her congressional duties.
• 1990: Parks is called at the last
moment to be part o f the group
welcoming Nelson Mandela, who
had just been released from his
im prisonment in South Africa.
Upon sporting her in the reception
line, Mandela calles out her name
and, hugging her, says, "You
sustained me while I was in prison
all those years.’’ *
• 1994: Parks received the Rosa
Parks Peace Prize in Stockholm,
Sweden.
• Sept. 9, 1996: President
Clinton awards Parks the Presiden
tial Medal o f Freedom.
W hen evil
m en sh o u t ugly
w ords o f h a tre d , good m en m u st
commit themselves to the glories of love.
Where evil men would seek to perpetu
ate an unjust status quo, good men must
seek to bring into b eing a real order
of j ustice. ’
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks was given many awards and
accolades during the Clinton presidency. Parks
is pictured here with activist, Cicily Tyson, and
President Bill Clinton.
• 1998: Parks becomes the first recipient o f
the International Freedom Conductor Award
given by the National Underground Railroad
Freedom Center.
• June IS , 1999: President Clinton awards
Parks the Congressional Gold Medal o f Honor,
the nation’s highest civilian honor.
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• Decem ber 8, 2 0 0 1 : The U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that Parks could proceed w ith her
suit against hip hop duo Outkast, who used
her name w ith o u t permission on a 1998 track.
• Oct. 24, 200S; Parks dies quietly in her
apartment in D etroit only days before the 50th
Anniversary o f the M ontgom eiy bus boycotts.
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Rosa Parks funeral was a widely attended event, celebrating her life and legacy.