DETROIT, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- The majority of the proceeds from the sale of U.S. civil rights icon Rosa Parks' estate will go to an institute she founded, court documents said.
The seven-page legal settlement filed in Michigan Supreme Court last month provided the first details of the 2007 agreement signed by Parks' nieces and nephews and her longtime friend and caregiver, Elaine Steele.
The Detroit Free Press said Sunday the agreement grants 80 percent of the sale proceeds to the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development with the relatives getting the other 20 percent. The same split applies to any royalties from Parks' image.
The confidential deal also requires the two sides to refrain from criticizing one another in public and assigned a probate judge to settle any future disputes either privately or through binding arbitration.
Parks' estate has been estimated at about $8 million due largely to her historical significance, the Free Press said. Parks made headlines in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Alabama.
