She was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame

On October 20, 1983, in Dearborn, Michigan, 18 women were recognized, including Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth), a former slave who became a nationally known crusader for human rights; Anna Howard Shaw, a minister and physician who succeeded Susan B. Anthony as president of the National American Women's Suffrage Association; and Lucinda Hinsdale Stone, the state's foremost spokesperson for coeducation during the last half of the nineteenth century. Among the recent honorees were Martha Griffiths, a congresswoman who was the major sponsor of the ERA in that legislature and the first woman elected lieutenant governor in Michigan, and Rosa Parks, widely regarded as the mother of the modern civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks was inducted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1983 for her civil rights contributions and achievements. Parks had joined the Detroit branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) a decade previously, which was a step toward broadening her work beyond civil rights to include women's equality. She has also had a major roadway in Detroit named after her, as well as a scholarship fund to assist Michigan students who show potential for the type of courage and leadership Mrs. Parks shown in Montgomery in 1955.