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Show world-i- e People DETROIT- are mourning the death he woman known as the move,ther of the civil rights nt Rosa Parks died Monday rung at her home in the Apartments in front e, and iroit her spokeswoman Ttinie friend Elaine Eason said "She ele went away Steele said. Parks icefully," 92 s and Parks' physician, Steele Sharon Oliver, were presSwanson Funeral Home roit is - in handling the a e white up her seat to on a Montgomery, Ala., son Dec 1, 1955. 3 black person refusing to a white person could so down was oack then. ive almost unheard heard of soon the world Rut rks' quiet act of courage. tatue of tirs India campaign. anyone beside the ms have time for King orge IV, posed on horseback, Gen Charles James Napier, io, according to the mscrip-n- , was born in MDCCLXXXH id died LXXI years later in 'DCCCLHI Even Lord Horatio Nelson is far high dly noticed He is so ;ove it all atop his 171-f- t. jmn that tourists in cant be sure tfalgar Square actually him up there. the new statue of Alison pper on the northwest cor-- r of London's most famous blic space is a showstopper. It is difficult to ignore the ness But of the nude, heavily gnant and severely disabled 'Pper, who was born with seated' legs and no arms. Almost 12 feet nlpted from 13 scent white 'lison Lapper high and tons of lumi-- ' Carrara marble, Pregnant," as Plece is titled, has drawn and scorn since its 1iyeiling last month. It is a work about courage, nuty and defiance," lared London Mayor Ken lngston at the unveiling ciise rpmony, But art critic Richard 'I'ment found it "ePy v ,lP" Be s Rights activist Rosa Parks waves after being honored in the U.S. Capitol with the Congressional Gold Medal in June 1999. Parks died of natural causes at her home in Detroit. Civil She retired in 1988. In 1987, she and Steele created the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. "I had no idea when I refused to give up my seat on that Montgomery bus that my small action would put an end to the lll.ll both and "bland as a piece statue was commis-!P- d by a public that 0een given a 20-ye-panel man-- . to make artistic use of la algar Square's long unoc THE BENEFITS OF USED TEXTBOOKS. THE W!SQGfV? OF RIDING r- - THE COATTAILS CF THOSE VVHOVE CC.AL REFOLD. - a photographer, artist and colleague whose personal story is as compelling as the massive statue. Abandoned and institutionalized from infancy, Lapper began painting at a young age, using her feet and mouth to hold the brush. She has an honors degree in fine arts, and her work, which challenges conventional notions about beauty and normality, has been by critics and fellow artists. The son Lapper, a smgle mother, was carrying when5.she posed for Quinn, is now Lapper and her son were present at the unveiling. "I regard it as a modern tribute to femininity, disability and motherhood. It is so rare to see disability in everyday life, let alone naked, pregnant and proud," she said. (c) 2005, Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Knight RidderTribune Information Allow us to make a case for used textbooks. They offer you the highlighted and underlined wisdom (assuming they actually passed the class) of those whove come before. 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Distributed by Knight RidderTribune information Services !!. in London up emotions one cupied fourth plinth. The 'or does ,ie the Montgomery bus action and continued until her health failed her in recent years. She was one of the first women to join the NAACP in Montgomery in 1943. For several years, she served as secretary of the Montgomery branch and adviser of its youth council. She long had a special affection for young people, even though she and her husband, the late Raymond Parks, never had children of their own. He preceded her in death in 1977. In 1957, Rosa and Raymond Parks moved to Detroit to find work and to escape harassment that continued alter the boycott. In Detroit, she worked first as a seamstress in a factory and then in 1965 began working as an assistant to U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a Detroit Democrat. LONDON- - No 1857 - 3 Tuskegee, Ala. Although people generally associate Parks with the boycott, her activism began years before pregnant woman gives glance to musty old a Henry Havelock, hero of AT) that ignited spread until racial segregation was burned out in the United States. Her simple act of defiance earned her worldwide acclaim, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's highest award, the Spingarn Medal, the Congressional Gold Medal awarded by former President Bill Clinton and a peace prize m Sweden After she was arrested, black people in Montgomery refused to ride the city's buses. They walked or used a car pool put together by the city's black churches. They boycotted the buses for a year and created a model of mass protest unlike anything that has been seen since in the United States. Freedom fighters across the world were inspired by her courage. She was born Rosa Louise McCauley on Feb. 4, 1913, in d angements. rhe humble black woman de history by refusing to ,n DIXIE SUN Rosa Parks dies at 92 pioneer rights Her refusal a fire Tvil IT) WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 26, 2005 nMFSDAY. is Deposits arc FDIL Deans-Liste- r, Free Checking from Washington Mutual Along with the books of a all you really need to skim through school in style. For more information, visit your local Washington Mutual Financial Center or call Insured |