After Rosa's arrest she became a icon in Civil Rights but because of economic sanctions used against activists she lost her job. Rosa also went threw some depression when she lost her immediate family and husband. Later Rosa Parks died of natural causes at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005, in her apartment in Detroit.In the1970s Rosa had a a lot of lost in her family.
Her family had a lot to do with illness. Rosa and her husband had suffered stomach ulcers for years and both required hospitalization. Then in their 60s, her brother Sylvester and husband were both diagnosed with cancer, as was her mother. Parks sometimes visited three hospitals in the same day.In spite of her fame and constant speaking engagements, Parks was not a wealthy woman.
She donated most of the money from speaking to civil rights causes, and lived on her staff salary and her husband's pension. Medical bills and time missed from work caused financial strain that required her to accept assistance from church groups and admirers.Rosa's husband died from throat cancer on August 19, 1977 and her brother died of cancer that November. Her personal ordeals caused her to become removed from the civil rights movement. Rosa suffered two broken bones in a fall on an icy sidewalk, an injury which caused recurring pain. She decided to move with her mother into an apartment for senior citizens.