October 30, 2005: Rosa Parks Lies in Honor at U.S. Capitol
On this day in 2005, civil rights activist Rosa Parks became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C after her death at age 92.
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to vacate her seat for a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama during the Jim Crow segregation law era. Parks’ subsequent arrest led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ended after 381 days when the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional in November 1956.
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Photo: Photograph of Rosa Parks, ca. 1955 (Wikimedia Commons/National Archives).
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