After Parks was robbed and assaulted in 1994, pizza chain founder Michael Ilitch offered to pay her rent in perpetuity.
Wikimedia Commons ; Dave Sandford / Getty ImagesLeft : Rosa Parks in 1955 . Right : Michael Ilitch in 2007 .
Little Caesars ’ founder Michael Ilitch , who passed away this past Friday , personally paid Rosa Parks ’ rip for more than ten years .
ABC affiliate WXYZreports that Ilitch offered to bear for Parks ’ business district Detroit flat after reading an clause about the effort to rule her a unexampled domicile following an incident in which she was soak and assaulted in 1994 .
Wikimedia Commons; Dave Sandford/Getty ImagesLeft: Rosa Parks in 1955. Right: Michael Ilitch in 2007.
At the time , Parks was 81 year previous and the incident do many involved in Detroit ’s civil rightfield bm , such as federal jurist Damon Keith , to search for a young home for Parks . She was by this metre a long - time Detroit resident , having moved there before long after the Alabama autobus boycott .
After Ilitch read about Parks ’ search in the newspaper , he touch Keith and offered to pay for Parks ’ rent ( $ 2,000 a month ) in perpetuity . In total , Ilitch pay for Parks ’ rent from 1994 until her death in 2005 .
“ They do n’t go around saying it , but I want to , at this point , let them cognize , how much the Ilitches not only meant to the city , ” Keith tell WXYZ , “ but they mean so much for Rosa Parks , who was the female parent of the civic rights movement . ”
The story was first report in 2014 bySports Business Dailybut kept mystic while Parks was still alive .
“ You ’ll never find out new ocean unless you have the bravery to lose sight of the shore . Mike and [ his married woman ] Marian had the courage to miss sight of the shoring and discover new ocean , ” Keith added .
“ They kept pushing Detroit , and had it not been for them , I am enounce , Detroit would not be in the renaissance that they ’re in now . ”
It “ give[s ] you a sensation of the variety of human beings Mike Ilitch was , ” Michigan Lt . Gov. Brian Calley wrote on Facebook according toCNN .
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