Parks' Adopted Hometown Mourns
Thousands Wait In Line To Pay Respects To Late Civil Rights Leader
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Play CBS Video Video Rosa Parks' Savvy The woman who ignited the civil rights movement had a background that's often overlooked. Jim Stewart reports.
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Video Winfrey's Tribute To Parks CBS News RAW: Talk show host Oprah Winfrey paid tribute to civil rights icon Rosa Parks at Metropolitan AME Church memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Video Honoring A Legend: Rosa Parks At the Capitol Rotunda, thousands of mourners streamed past the body of Rosa Parks, who helped jumpstart the civil rights movement. Meg Oliver reports.
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The casket carrying Rosa Parks lies inside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. (AP)
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Actress Cicely Tyson walks by a portrait of Rosa Parks at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History on Monday, Oct. 31, 2005, in Detroit. (AP)
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Oprah Winfrey pays tribute to Rosa Parks, during a memorial services, in the Metropolitan AME Church, Oct. 31, 2005, in Washington. (AP)
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President Bush and Laura Bush walk past the casket of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks who lies in honor at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 in Washington. (AP)
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An honor guard keep vigil in the Capitol Rotunda, Oct. 31, 2005. (AP)
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It was another first for Parks — she was the first woman to receive capitol visitation honors.
And, knowing her history, Stewart reports, it is safe to say that she probably would have liked that distinction.
Frist accompanied new Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito and his family to the Rotunda, where they paused in silent remembrance. Several senators joined the procession.
There was an honor guard of police by the coffin and several large flower wreaths, reports CBS News correspondent Bob Fuss (audio).
Bathed in a spotlight, Parks' casket stood in the center of a Rotunda that includes a bronze bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who led the 381-day boycott of the Montgomery bus system that helped initiate the modern civil rights movement.
In preparation for a memorial service, her casket was taken down the steps of the East Capitol by a military honor guard of pallbearers, followed by her family. A vintage Metropolitan bus dressed in black bunting followed the hearse, along with other city buses.
President Bush, who presented a wreath Sunday night at a Capitol Hill ceremony, ordered the U.S. flag to be flown at half-staff over all public buildings Wednesday, the day of Parks' funeral and burial in Detroit.
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