ClickOnDetroit.com - News - Funeral Arrangements Set For Rosa Parks
ClickOnDetroit.com - News - Funeral Arrangements Set For Rosa Parks: "Parks To Lie In State
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.
Parks would be the first woman and second black American to receive the accolade. Jacob J. Chestnut, one of two Capitol police officers fatally shot in 1998, was the first black American to lie in state, said Senate historian Richard Baker. Parks also would be the second non-governmental official to be commemorated that way."

I meant to post this in my other blog. Blogger sometimes won't let me switch the first post after logging in. The reason I am leaving this here is because on that day, on that bus, that driver(and the way a very large portion of our population treated other people) sucked.


(Ernest Green [Little Rock Nine student]: For 381 days, people walked to work, or carpooled. Today, we buy a rubber bracelet to support a cause.)
- posted by Jim @ 4:05 AM