NYT/AP: Nation Pays Tribute to Rosa Parks

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Nation Pays Tribute to Rosa Parks
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 30, 2005
Filed at 7:04 p.m. ET


MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Rosa Parks was remembered Sunday by hundreds of mourners for her defiant act on a city bus that inspired the civil rights movement and helped pave the way for other blacks including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Cascades of roses surrounded Parks' casket in a chapel bearing her name at St. Paul A.M.E. Church, where she was once a member. A separate wing was opened for the overflow crowd and hundreds more mourned outside.

''I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed,'' said the Rev. Joseph Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

The body of the 92-year-old Parks, who died Monday at her home in Detroit, had been lying in honor at the church since Saturday, when hundreds filed slowly past her casket.

From Montgomery, Parks' body was flown to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport in Maryland, arriving around 5:45 p.m. EST. A motorcade escorted Parks' body, and her delegation, to the Capitol in Washington. Parks will lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, the first woman granted that honor....


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Rosa-Parks.html?hp&ex=1130734800&en=b18d7e453f8f95ec&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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1. Rest in peace great Lady, rest in Peace

We will try to honor your memory by our deeds.

We will fight to keep your vision for America a reality.