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DETROIT (AP) - A settlement was reached Saturday in the dispute over the estate of civil rights icon Rosa Parks, including the rights to her name and image, a lawyer in the case said.
The settlement, the terms of which were not disclosed, avoids a trial between her relatives and the institute that bears her name.
Parks, who died in 2005 at 92, left nearly all of her estate to the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development. Longtime friend Elaine Steele says Parks intended to leave her belongings and her legacy in the hands of the nonprofit organization she founded.
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