Editing Rosa Parks (section)

==Death and funeral==
[[File:Rosa Parks lying in state.jpg|thumb|The casket of Rosa Parks at the [[U.S. Capitol rotunda]]]]

Parks died of natural causes in her home on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92.{{sfn|Mace|2021|p=156}} City officials in Detroit and Montgomery announced that the front seats of their city buses would be reserved with black ribbons and fabric in honor of Parks until her funeral, with Detroit Mayor [[Kwame Kilpatrick]] placing down a ribbon on October 27.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 28, 2005 |title=Buses save Parks a front seat |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/colorado/colorado-springs/colorado-springs-gazette/2005/10-28/page-23 |access-date=March 20, 2025 |work=Colorado Springs Gazette |agency=The Associated Press |via=NewspaperArchive }}</ref> Her remains were flown to Montgomery for a public viewing and funeral service. Among the attendees was [[United States Secretary of State]] [[Condoleezza Rice]], who remarked that "without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here today as Secretary of State". Her remains were then flown to Washington, D.C, with the plane circling twice over Montgomery while the pilot sang "[[We Shall Overcome]]".{{sfn|Theoharis|2015|p=vii}}

Representative Conyers introduced Concurrent Resolution 61, which received Senate approval on October 29, 2005, allowing Parks's remains to [[lying in state|lie in state]] at the [[United States Capitol rotunda]] from October 30 to October 31.{{sfn|Richardson|2021|p=120}} Her remains were transported to the rotunda by the [[National Guard (United States)|United States National Guard]]. 40,000 mourners came to pay their respects, with [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]] and [[First Lady]] [[Barbara Bush]] laying a wreath on her coffin.{{sfn|Theoharis|2015|p=vii}} Parks was the 31st individual, and the second{{refn|group=lower-alpha|French urban planner [[Pierre L'Enfant]] was the first.<ref name="Glass" />}} private citizen, to be laid in state.<ref name="Glass">{{cite web |last1=Glass |first1=Andrew |title=Rosa Parks mourned at Capitol, Oct. 30, 2005 |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/30/rosa-parks-honored-at-us-capitol-oct-30-2005-244294 |website=Politico |access-date=March 20, 2025 |date=October 30, 2017}}</ref> A public memorial was also held at the [[Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church|Metropolitan AME Church]] before her remains were returned to Detroit.{{sfn|Theoharis|2015|pp=vii–viii}}

{{Wikinews|Body of Rosa Parks to lie in honor at U.S. Capitol}}
In Detroit, Parks's casket was displayed at the [[Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History]]. A memorial service was held at the Greater Grace Temple on November 2. Attendees included [[Bill Clinton|Bill]] and [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama]].{{sfn|Theoharis|2015|p=viii}} An honor guard accompanied Parks's casket via horse-drawn carriage to the service, where soul singer [[Aretha Franklin]] performed. After the service, a white hearse conveyed Parks's remains to Woodlawn Cemetery, where she was interred in a mausoleum alongside Raymond and her mother.{{sfn|Richardson|2021|p=121}} The chapel was renamed the Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel in her honor<ref>{{cite web |last1=Esparza |first1=Santiago |title=Parks to remain private in death |url=http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20051103%2FNEWS06%2F511030463%2F1012 |website=The Indianapolis Star |access-date=March 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614033729/http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20051103%2FNEWS06%2F511030463%2F1012 |archive-date=June 14, 2006 |date=November 3, 2005}}</ref>