Capitol Honors OK'd For Rosa Parks
Late Civil Rights Hero Will Have Rare Public Viewing In Rotunda
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Rosa Parks is escorted by E.D. Nixon, former president of the Alabama NAACP, on arrival at the courthouse in Montgomery March 19, 1956 for the trial in the racial bus boycott. (AP (file))
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Bus driver Charlotte Taylor looks back at a black ribbon placed over the first seat in memory of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005, in Detroit. (AP)
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Rosa Parks rides on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus in Alabama, in this undated photo. She was 42, a seamstress, when on Dec. 1, 1955, she defied segregation. (AP (file))
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Lila Cabbil, the institute's president emeritus, said Thursday the information was released prematurely and the foundation and the Parks family were working with Congressional Democrats John Conyers and Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick and the White House to make arrangements to have a viewing in Washington.
The Capitol event was one of several planned to honor the civil rights pioneer. Parks will lie in repose Saturday at the St. Paul AME Church in Montgomery, Alabama, and a memorial service will be held at the church Sunday morning.
Following her viewing in the Capitol, a memorial service was planned for Monday at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington.
From Monday night until Wednesday morning, Parks will lie in repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Her funeral will be Wednesday at Greater Grace Temple Church in Detroit.
Officials in Detroit and Montgomery, Alabama, meanwhile, said the first seats of their buses would be reserved as a tribute to Parks' legacy until her funeral next week. Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick put a black ribbon Thursday on the first passenger seat of one of about 200 buses where seats will be reserved.
"We cannot do enough to pay tribute to someone who has so positively impacted the lives of millions across the world," Kilpatrick said.
In some buses in Montgomery, the first seat was being covered with black fabric and a photograph of Parks was being displayed, according to the Montgomery Area Transit System.
Officials elsewhere are offering similar tributes.
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority honored Parks by putting signs above seats in the front of 12 downtown buses that read: "This seat is reserved for no one. RTA honors the woman who took a stand by sitting down. Rosa Parks 1913-2005."
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