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Ilitch aids civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, others 
  
 In his chambers in Detroit, Judge Damon Keith holds a copy of a check in his hand and has a story to tell. It’s about the time Mike Ilitch came to the aid of Rosa Parks, whose legendary defiance of segregation in 1955 led to the black civil rights movement. 
  
 Judge Damon Keith shows one of the checks that Ilitch paid for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks’ housing. 
  
  
  
 “It’s for $2,000, dated November the first, 1994. It’s from Little Caesars Enterprises to Riverfront Apartments, and I know it was just one of many,” said Keith, 91, who has been a U.S. Court of Appeals judge in Detroit for the last 46 years. “It’s important that people know what Mr. Mike Ilitch did for Ms. Rosa Parks because it’s symbolic of what he has always done for the people of our city.” 
  
 On Aug. 31, 1994, Parks, then 81, was robbed and assaulted in her home in central Detroit. Keith called real estate developer Alfred Taubman, the owner of Riverfront Apartments, about finding a safer home for Parks. Taubman pledged to find the best home available. 
  
 When Ilitch read about Keith’s plan and Taubman’s promise in the newspaper, he called the judge and said he would pay for Parks’ housing for as long as necessary. (Parks passed away in 2005 at the age of 92). Keith served as the executor of the trust established for Parks’ housing. 
  
 {podcast} SBJ Podcast: 
  
 Executive Editor Abraham Madkour and NHL writer Christopher Botta discuss the life and career of Mike Ilitch. 
  
 The episode is just one of many throughout Ilitch’s life when he stepped forward to help (see box), usually outside of the spotlight. 
  
 “Mike Ilitch is totally committed to Detroit,” Keith said. “He brought the Little Caesars corporate offices here. He saved the Fox Theatre. He built Comerica Park, and he kept the hockey and baseball teams thriving here when times were tough. But of all the incredible things he has done for the city, people should know what he did for Rosa Parks.” 
  
 OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE 
  
 Among Mike Ilitch’s many causes throughout the years 
  
 ■ Supporting the Motor City’s Big Three 
  
 When sinking profits forced General Motors to discontinue its sponsorship of the center-field fountain at Comerica Park in 2009, Ilitch saw an opportunity to help the automobile industry. He gave the spot to GM, Ford and Chrysler, free of charge. Underneath the companies’ logos was a sign that read: “The Detroit Tigers support our automakers.” 
  
 ■ Cup rings for past champions 
  
 When the Red Wings won the Stanley Cup in 2008 — the fourth under Ilitch — the club decided to send rings to all of the living players who were on championship teams in Detroit before Ilitch bought the team in 1982. Marcel Pronovost, for example, received a ring with four diamonds, marking the four Cups he won with the Red Wings in the 1950s. 
  
 ■ Little Caesars hockey program 
  
 In 1979, three years before he bought the Red Wings, Ilitch started the Little Caesars Amateur Hockey League. Today, it’s the largest youth hockey program in the U.S., with more than 600 teams and 10,000 participants. 
  
 ■ Charitable works 
  
 Since 2005, Ilitch Charities, the Detroit Tigers Foundation and the Detroit Red Wings Foundation have awarded $15 million in grants to local charities, college scholarships, game tickets and in-kind donations. 
  
 — Compiled by Christopher Botta 
  
  ||||| Mike Ilitch, the late owner of the Detroit Tigers and Detroit Red Wings, paid the rent of civil rights icon Rosa Parks for more than a decade, a story that has reemerged after the businessman's death last week. 
  
 In 1994, Ilitch, a Detroit native who made millions as owner of pizza chain Little Caesars, heard that Parks needed safer housing after she was robbed and assaulted at her home in central Detroit. Parks, an Alabama native, had moved to the Michigan city shortly after the Montgomery bus boycott inspired by her decision not to give up her seat while using public transportation on Dec. 1, 1955. 
  
 Ilitch contacted Parks' friends, Judge Damon Keith and developer Alfred Taubman, and offered to pay her rent as long as necessary. 
  
 Parks, then 81, moved to Taubman's Riverfront Apartments, where she lived until her death in 2005 at age 92. It's not clear how long Ilitch paid the rent but Keith said it's just one of the contributions the businessman and sports team-owner made to the community. 
  
 "It's important that people know what Mr. Mike Ilitch did for Ms. Rosa Parks because it's symbolic of what he has always done for the people of our city," Keith said. 
  
 Ilitch died Feb. 10 at age 87. He was buried in Detroit in a private ceremony. |||||

The death of Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesars, has brought back into the public eye a little-known story about his hometown philanthropy in Detroit: Back in 1994, he began covering the rent for civil rights icon Rosa Parks. That year, Parks had been robbed and assaulted in her central Detroit home at the age of 81, and a local judge and a real estate developer worked on finding her a safer home, recounts Al.com, citing a 2014 story in Sports Business Daily. Ilitch got wind of the plan and said he'd pay Parks' rent in the Riverfront Apartments. The older story has a photo of the judge holding the first $2,000 check in 1994. "Just one of many," the story quotes Judge Damon Keith as saying. Ilitch owned the city's Tigers and Red Wings sports franchises, and he brought his pizza chain's corporate offices to Detroit as well. But "of all the incredible things he has done for the city, people should know what he did for Rosa Parks," Keith said. Parks died in 2005.