... but later there was a church that paid her rent. Not sure of her source.
Here's what I found:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6659487/ns/us_news-life/t/landlord-wont-ask-rosa-parks-pay-rent/
Parks’ doctors say the 91-year-old civil rights pioneer has dementia and is in poor health. Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit had been paying Parks’ rent, which had been as high as $1,800 a month, since August 2003, the Rev. Charles Adams said.
http://www.blacdetroit.com/BLAC-Detroit/February-2017/Yes-Mike-Ilitch-paid-some-rent-for-Rosa-Parks-But-not-for-more-than-a-decade/
But among one of the more feel-good stories to pop up about Ilitch is how he paid the rent for Rosa Parks – the original embodiment of “she was warned, she was given an explanation, nevertheless, she persisted” – when she moved into the Riverfront Towers in the mid-1990s.
Did the pizza magnate help with the living expenses for the civil rights icon? Yes. For how long? Well, not as long as some news outlets are claiming – and, for that matter, not as much as a contribution as implied.
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It’s the WXYZ story that’s really got everybody screwed up. With a headline blaring “Mike Ilitch paid for Rosa Parks’ housing for more than a decade,” the TV station’s story is just not true. The headline repeats itself on national black media sites and elsewhere. Not true.
By all accounts, but particularly an Associated Press report from December 2004, Parks fell behind on her rent in 2002. That would be eight years after she moved to the apartment in 1994, and that’s certainly less than a decade. Simply put, Ilitch – and he was very good for helping out, don’t get it wrong – could not have been paying for Parks’ rent all that time. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have owed.
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Me? I don't know. I didn't find anything on Snopes about it. Just sharing info.
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