WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The body of civil rights icon Rosa Parks will lie in state in the rotunda of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington before returning to Detroit for burial.
The honor is in recognition of the quiet seamstress, whose refusal to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955 gave the impetus to the desegregation campaign in the United States, reports the Detroit News.
Parks' body will be at the Lincoln Memorial from 6 p.m. EST until midnight EST Sunday. Burial is scheduled for Wednesday in Detroit.
The U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate voted Wednesday to rename a federal building in Detroit, which houses the federal Homeland Security Office, in honor of Parks.
The funeral plans will allow the public a last chance to pay their respects to Parks, who died in her Detroit apartment Monday at age 92.
"I'd be honored to be there -- I gave her the Medal of Freedom," former President Bill Clinton said. President Bush has ordered federal flags lowered to half-staff the day of Parks' burial.
