29.08.2014 - 01:32 [ Guardian ]

Warren Buffett‘s son buys civil rights champion Rosa Parks‘ possessions

Howard G. Buffett plans to give items unseen for years to an institute to ‚preserve them for the American people'(..)
Parks, who died in 2005 at age 92, became an enduring symbol of the civil rights movement when she refused to cede her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white man. That triggered a bus boycott that helped to dismantle officially sanctioned segregation and lift the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr to national prominence.