« Fitzgerald: GOP Talking Point "Won't Fly" | Main | They Knew »
October 28, 2005
Rosa Parks to lie in honor at Capitol
WASHINGTON (AP)Rosa Parks, the seamstress whose act of defiance on a public bus a half-century ago helped spark the civil rights movement, will join presidents and war heroes who have been honored in death with a public viewing in the Capitol Rotunda.
Parks, who died Monday in Detroit at age 92, also will be the first woman to lie in honor in the Rotunda, the vast circular room under the Capitol dome.
The House on Friday passed by voice vote a resolution allowing Parks to be honored in the Capitol on Sunday and Monday "so that the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American." The Senate approved the resolution Thursday night.
It will be only the fifth time in the past two decades that a person has either lain in honor or in state in the Rotunda.
This is an honor Rosa Parks more than deserves. What a wonderful tribute to a bright, beautiful, intelligent woman who helped changed our country for the better. Her radiant smile is no doubt warming heaven now.
Read more at CNN.
Posted by Daffodil at October 28, 2005 3:44 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.daffodillane.com/movabletype/mt-tb.cgi/4060
Comments
Aren't the conservatives and the neo-cons having a fit because she's lying in state and she's a woman, and black?
Posted by: mums at October 28, 2005 4:56 PM
I haven't heard anyone say anything negative about it.
Posted by: Dianne at October 28, 2005 5:01 PM
I'm thinking about taking the kids down on Monday morning, if they are feeling better by then, interested in coming along?
Posted by: cjmr at October 28, 2005 6:03 PM
I would love to go, but I think we'll have to pass. I don't think Alexis is ready for something of that magnitude. She has no concept of being quiet and I'm afraid she'd throw a fit.
Posted by: Dianne at October 28, 2005 7:30 PM