Mourning For Rosa

Friends and family watch the casket of Rosa Parks as it is carried up the steps of the Capitol on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005, in Washington, D.C. Parks, who died Monday in Detroit, refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott.

An honor guard from the Maryland Transportation Authority Police carries the coffin of Rosa Parks away from the airplane and to a hearse at the Baltimore Washington International Airport in Linthicum, Md., Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005. Parks will lie in honor at the U. S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.

People view the coffin containing the remains of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks who lies in honor inside the Capitol Rotunda, the first woman accorded such an honor, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005, in Washington, D.C. Parks inspired the U.S. civil rights movement by refusing to give up a seat on a city bus to a white man.

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush walk past the casket of civil rights pioneer Rosa Park who lies in honor at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 in Washington, D.C. Parks is the first woman and second African-American to have this honor.

The general public files by the casket of Rosa Parks lying in honor at the Capitol Rotunda on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 in Washington, D.C.

Claudette Smith carries her 2 1/2-year-old daughter, Kennedy Smith, to pay respects to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, who lies in honor inside the Capitol Rotunda, early Monday, Oct. 31, 2005, in Washington, D.C. Thousands of Americans paid tribute to Rosa Parks under the dome of the Capitol Rotunda, waiting in line for hours.

Schuyler McCauley-Brown, the grand nephew of Rosa Parks, stands with President Bush, center, and first lady Laura Bush, left, as they pay their respects, as the casket of the civil rights pioneer lies in honor at the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 in Washington, D.C. Parks is the first woman and second African-American to have this honor.

Honor guards keep a vigil in the Capitol Rotunda where civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks lies in state, early Monday, Oct. 31, 2005, in Washington, D.C. Thousands of Americans paid tribute to Rosa Parks under the dome of the Capitol Rotunda, waiting in line for hours to see the closed casket of the woman whose defiant act on a city bus inspired the modern civil rights movement.

Alicia Myers, back right, with her niece Shante Tyler, front left, and son Isaiah Myers, front right, view the coffin containing the remains of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks who lies in state inside the Capitol Rotunda, the first woman accorded such an honor Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005, in Washington, D.C.

President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush attend a service to pay tribute to Rosa Parks, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Parks, arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., is the first woman and second black person to have her body lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.

Nicholas McCauley, the grand nephew of Rosa Parks, looks up at President Bush, who closes his eyes as he pays tribute to Rosa Parks, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Pallbearers carry the casket of Rosa Parks into the Rotunda of the Capitol Rotunda, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005, in Washington, D.C.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during the service for Rosa Parks, as Parks casket lies in the foreground, at a memorial at St. Paul A.M.E. Church in Montgomery, Ala., on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005. Parks was remembered Sunday by hundreds of mourners for her defiant act on a city bus that inspired the U.S. civil rights movement and helped pave the way for other blacks.

Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, center, addresses the crowd at St. Paul A.M.E. Church as the body of civil rights icon Rosa Parks lies in repose, Sunday Oct. 30, 2005, in Montgomery, Ala.

Martin Luther King III talks about the life of Rosa Parks during a memorial service honoring the civil rights icon at St. Paul AME Church Sunday Oct. 30, 2005, in Montgomery, Ala.