Telling Essay Written By Rosa Parks Found

Nearly six years after her death, a handwritten six-page essay by Rosa Parks has been discovered.  Shockingly, it's not just an essay -- but rather, throughout the pages, the civil rights icon talks about nearly being raped by a white man.  According to reports by the Associated Press, the essay among other items, will soon be auctioned off.The essay is among thousands of her personal items currently being housed at the Manhattan warehouse and offices of Guernsey's Auctioneers waiting to be sold to the highest bidder, so to speak.  Guernsey's Auctioneers has been selected to find an institution to buy and preserve the complete and newly-found Rosa Parks archive.

Inside the pages of the essay Parks writes: "He offered me a drink of whiskey, which I promptly, vehemently refused.  He moved nearer to me and put his hand on my waist.  I was very frightened by now.  He liked me.... he didn't want me to be lonely and would I be sweet to him. He had money to give me for accepting his attentions.  I was ready to die but give my consent never, never, never".

According to historian Danille McGuire, this kind of helps to explain what helped trigger Mrs. Parks' lifelong campagn against the ritualistic rape of black women by white men.

As far as the auction, proceeds from "The Rosa Parks Archive" will go to resolve a behind to seen dispute.  A dispute over her estate that has been on going between her relatives and the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development of which she created in 1987.