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’ rent for more than ten years.
ABC affiliate WXYZ reports that Ilitch offered to pay for Parks’ downtown Detroit apartment after reading an article about the effort to find her a new home following an incident in which she was robbed and assaulted in 1994.
Willie Murphy didn't just turn the tables on the home intruder — she literally picked up her table and hit him with it.YouTubeBodybuilder Willie Murphy struck the home intruder several times before jumping on him.
A man up to no good got more than he bargained for when he broke into the home of an 82-year-old grandmother. Turns out, the little old lady was an award-winning bodybuilder. According to local news station WHAM-TV, Willie Murphy was enjoying a quiet night at home last week when a stranger appeared on her house porch.
The former gym teacher shipwrecked on the uninhabited Sardinian island while attempting to sail to Polynesia in 1989 — and decided to stay. But now, the 81-year-old is being forced to leave.FacebookMauro Morandi, a.k.a. “the Italian Robinson Crusoe.”
Mauro Morandi led a comfortable life as a gym teacher in Modena, Italy, before his sense of adventure took him to sea in 1989. But when his expedition failed and he landed on the remote Isle of Budelli off the coast of Sardinia, he decided to become the deserted island’s caretaker — and has voluntarily lived alone there ever since.
A Presbyterian minister, Sylvester Graham believed that all of America's moral failings could be traced back to an unholy diet — and created a strict meal plan to "cure" society's ills.Library of CongressSylvester Graham, the evangelical minister with strong dietary views.
In the 1830s, a restrictive diet craze launched by a Presbyterian minister named Sylvester Graham swept across America. This was an era of religious transformation in the nation. Known as the Second Great Awakening, this time period ushered in the emergence of Mormonism and saw a boom in evangelical Protestantism.
As turmoil roiled in Los Angeles in April 1992, Korean store owners were abandoned by the LAPD and forced to fend for themselves. The results were disastrous. Getty ImagesWith no assistance from the LAPD, Korean American business owners, now called “roof Koreans,” and other residents of South Central were left to fend for themselves.
In 1992, Americans watched South Central Los Angeles go up in flames on the news. Tensions inside the neighborhood — a mix of racial minority demographics long plagued by urban blight — reached a boiling point after multiple incidents of racial violence against Black residents.