7 Facts About Rosa Parks

1. Since the founding of the practice in 1852, Rosa Parks was the 31st person, the first American who had not been a US government official, and the second private person to be honored in this way.

2. In 2002 Rosa Parks received an eviction notice from her $1,800 per month apartment for non-payment of rent.

3. In 1999 Rosa Parks filmed a cameo appearance for the television series Touched by an Angel.

4. At age 81 Rosa Parks was robbed and assaulted in her home in central Detroit on August 30, 1994.

5. In 1964, Rosa Parks told an interviewer that, "I don't feel a great deal of difference here.

6. In 1957, Raymond and Rosa Parks left Montgomery for Hampton, Virginia; mostly because she was unable to find work.

7. One day in 1943, Rosa Parks boarded a bus and paid the fare.