did-you-know: The founder of Little Caesars pizza paid Rosa Parks’ rent for over 10 years. When Mike
did-you-know: The founder of Little Caesars pizza paid Rosa Parks’ rent for over 10 years. When Mike Ilitch learned the 81-year-old civil rights activist had been robbed and beaten in her Detroit home in 1994, he wanted to move her to a safer apartment- so he established a trust to cover the housing expenses and continued paying her rent every single month until she died in 2005.(Source, Source 2, Source 3) -- source link