Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks arrives for a news conference in Detroit, Monday, Feb. 9, 1998 where she was honored with the state setting aside a special day to recognize her. Monday was Michigan's first Mrs. Rosa L. Parks day. In future years, it will be held on the first Monday following Feb. 4, Mrs. Parks' birthday. Mrs. Parks is the first living person to be honored in Michigan with a day named for them. Mrs. Parks, 84, became a symbol of the civil rights movement in 1955 in Montgomery, Ala., when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man, as law there required. She moved to Detroit in 1957. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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