DETROIT (Reuters) - Rosa Parks, the black seamstress whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked a revolution in American race relations 50 years ago, died on Monday.
Parks, 92, died in her sleep at her home in Detroit, said Parks' lawyer, Shirley Kaigler. She had been suffering from dementia and rarely appeared in public in recent years.
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