Update:The Rosa Parks public viewing in the Capitol Rotunda will be on Sunday, Oct. 30, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. and Monday, Oct. 31, from 7 to 10 a.m. Also on Monday, there will be a 1 p.m. memorial service at Metropolitan AME Church (1518 M St. NW).
From the Washington Post:
"Rosa Parks, the African American seamstress who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala., 50 years ago and lent a spark to the beginnings of the modern civil rights movement, is expected to make history again as the first woman ever to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda.
"The Senate approved a resolution last night to allow the honor, and the House is to consider it today. U.S. Capitol Police and the staff in the office of the Architect of the Capitol already had begun working on logistics for the event, which the resolution said would take place Sunday and Monday."
Read the full article here.
