Rosa Parks' adopted grandson killed in bus accident
July 29, 1997
Web posted at: 4:52 p.m. EDT (2052 GMT)
STONY CREEK, Virginia (CNN) -- The 25-year-old adopted grandson of civil rights figure Rosa Parks was killed on Tuesday when a charter bus carrying children learning about the slavery era veered off Interstate 95 in southern Virginia and plunged into the Nottoway River, state police said.
Thirty-four other people were injured in the accident, which closed northbound lanes of the East Coast's major north- south highway. The partially submerged bus was on its side in the 5-foot-deep river.
Mrs. Parks, who made civil rights history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, told reporters that her adopted grandson, Addisa Foulke of Detroit, had been killed in the accident about 20 miles south of Petersburg, Virginia.
The bus involved in the accident carried 35 people, most of them children between 11 and 17 years old, authorities said. Foulke was one of five chaperones. The Detroit-based Rosa & Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development helped sponsor the tour.
"It's very sad, very sad," Mrs. Parks, 84, said in Detroit as she waited for a Virginia-bound plane. Foulke was the nephew of the director of Mrs. Parks' foundation, and she said she considered him a member of her family.
"He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt that way about him and that's how he felt about me," Mrs. Parks said. "And I'm just hoping, though, that the young people who survive will continue on with the program."
The students, from all over the United States, were taking part in an educational project called the Pathway to Freedom tour. The trip traced the route of the Underground Railroad, the route escaped slaves took northward before the Civil War.
The tour began July 10 in Charleston, South Carolina, and was to end August 13 in Washington.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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This is factually correct, and HAPPENED, unlike your bullshit article. I could
find nothing on CNN about "Rosa Parks" other than Jessie Jackass' whining
about "Barbershop"
Don't post fake news stories to get a rise out of this board, Mike.
