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Rosa Parks, Rest in Peace.

The bus on which Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 is pictured in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. African-American civil rights pioneer Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955 sparked a movement to end legally imposed racial segregation in the United States, has died at the age of 92 at her home in Detroit, Michigan(AFP/File/Jeff Kowalsky)

A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriff's Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken Feb 22, 1956, is shown Friday, July 23, 2004, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Montgomery County (Ala.) Sheriff's office)

Rosa Parks is escorted by E.D. Nixon, former president of the Alabama NAACP, on arrival at the courthouse in Montgomery March 19, 1956 for the trial in the racial bus boycott. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks sits in a 1950's era bus in Montgomery, Ala. Saturday Dec. 2, 1995 some forty years after being arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white person. (AP Photo/Pool)