Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks lays in state during public viewing at the US Capitol Rotunda October 30, 2005 in Washington, DC. Parks was the first woman to lay in honor in the Capitol Rotunda and the second African-American. Parks is best known as a civil rights pioneer. She died on October 24, 2005, in Detroit, Michigan.

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Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks lays in state during public viewing at the US Capitol Rotunda October 30, 2005 in Washington, DC. Parks was the first woman to lay in honor in the Capitol Rotunda and the second African-American. Parks is best known as a civil rights pioneer. She died on October 24, 2005, in Detroit, Michigan.

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