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Congressional Gold Medal Recipient
Rosa Parks
Meets with Pope John Paul II
After calling racism a "plague," the pontiff meets with civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks
Meeting with Rosa Parks The
Pope also met briefly Wednesday evening with civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. In 1955, Parks, a black seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her arrest touched off a successful black boycott of Montgomery buses and lifted civil rights leader
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to national prominence. Parks, now 85, lives in Detroit. Earlier in the day, the pope said in his sermon that the United States faces a challenge "to put an end to every form of racism, a plague which your bishops have called one of the most persistent and destructive evils of the nation."
Rosa Parks presents a copy of her book, 'Quiet Strength,' to Pope John Paul II after a Mass at the Vatican on Jan. 27, 1999. (AP)
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