Hip-hop group OutKast [ tickets ] and civil rights icon Rosa Parks have reached a settlement in a long-running dispute surrounding the group's use of Parks' name as a song title.

In one portion of the settlement, revealed in a press release issued Thursday (4/14), OutKast agreed to perform on a tribute CD marking the 50th anniversary of Parks' arrest, an incident that helped to spark the Civil Rights movement. Also, "an educational tribute television broadcast special" about Parks' life will be produced, and a DVD of the broadcast will be distributed to public schools.

Parks' attorney, in a press release, indicated that the "living and health needs of Mrs. Parks, who is 92 years old, will be secure under the settlement." OutKast and fellow defendants Sony BMG admitted no fault.

Parks' suit, filed over the track "Rosa Parks" on OutKast's 1998 album "Aquemini," claimed that OutKast's use of her name unfairly suggested that she was connected to the group.

The song itself doesn't mention Parks' name, but it includes the chorus, "Ah hah, hush that fuss/ Everybody move to the back of the bus."

The lawsuit was thrown out of court in 1999, when a judge found that the First Amendment protected OutKast's use of the name in the song. A three-judge panel of the Sixth District United States Court of Appeals in Detroit revived the suit in 2003.

Parks, a black woman, became famous in 1955, when she refused to give up her seat aboard a Montgomery, AL, bus to a white passenger, as local Jim Crow laws required.