Call back after 5 p.m.'īy 1 p.m., she had repeated the words at least 50 times. For much of Wednesday, receptionist Diana Evans politely answered the phone and repeated the same phrase: 'No arrangements yet, ma'am. Parks' body has remained at Swanson Funeral Home in Detroit, which is handling arrangements and was swamped with calls.

'I'd be honored to be there - I gave her the Medal of Freedom,' former President Bill Clinton said. Many people from ordinary Americans to heads of state have expressed interest in the services. 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. The structure at 333 Mount Elliot, which houses the Federal Homeland Security Office, will be dubbed the Rosa Parks Federal Building. Meanwhile, the House and Senate Wednesday voted to rename a federal building in Detroit in honor of Parks.

She said that Conyers and Kilpatrick worked hard behind the scenes at the Capitol this week to get the request approved by the House and by President Bush. 'Congressman John Conyers and Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick appeal to (Congress),' said Anita Peek, a longtime Parks friend and a director of the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development in Detroit. Parks The honor speaks to the influence of the quiet seamstress who sparked the desegregation movement by refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955. DETROIT - In a gesture of respect reminiscent of those reserved for titans of government, Rosa Parks' body will lie in state in the rotunda of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Sunday and then return to Detroit for another public viewing and funeral services.

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