Civil rights heroine Rosa Parks’ body to lie in honour
Rosa Parks, who died on Monday, will become the first woman to receive one of America's highest tributes.
The 92 year-old, who helped spark the modern civil rights movement in the US, will lie in honour at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, it was announced today
In 1955, she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man leading to her arrest.
The incident sparked the civil rights movement in the US, as her case was taken up by a local minister named Martin Luther King, who organised a bus boycott by African-Americans.
