Relative of Rosa Parks to Speak About Her Detroit Years

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – A relative of Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus endures as a key moment in the civil rights movement, is sharing details about her later life in Detroit.

Two years after her action led black people to boycott Montgomery buses, Parks and her husband, Raymond, moved to Detroit. They brought along Rosa Parks’ mother, to be close to the family of Parks’ only sibling, Sylvester McCauley.

The Montgomery Advertiser reports (http://on.mgmadv.com/1Kiwt9a) that Parks’ seventh niece, Sheila McCauley Keys, chronicles that period of Parks’ life in a new book written by her and Eddie B. Allen Jr.

Keys plans to read from her book at the Rosa Parks Museum in downtown Montgomery on Wednesday, in celebration of Parks’ birthday.

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