Rosa Parks - A tribute in pictures (lots of photos)

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Rosa Parks - A tribute in pictures (lots of photos)

A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriff's Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken Feb 22, 1956, is shown Friday, July 23, 2004, in Montgomery, Ala. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo/Montgomery County (Ala.) Sheriff's office)

Mrs. Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Dep. Sherriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955. Parks, whose refusal sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)

Rosa Parks arrives at circuit court to be arraigned in the racial bus boycott, Feb. 24, 1956 in Montgomery, Ala. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo)

Mrs. Rosa Parks and E.D. Nixon, left, former president of the Alabama NAACP, arrive at court in Montgomery March 19, 1956 for the trial in the racial bus boycott. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)

Rosa Parks speaks at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 15, 1969. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo/Joe Holloway, Jr.)

Jesse Jackson raises the arm of Rosa Parks as he honored the heroine of the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, during his appearance before the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, July 19, 1988. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo)

Rosa Parks , right, and Coretta Scott King, wife of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., sing 'Come By Here My Lord' at Ebenezer Baptist Church in downtown Atlanta, Oct. 12, 1988, at the opening of the 'Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers' conference. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo/Judy Ondrey

President Clinton smiles with Rosa Parks in the Oval Office Saturday, Sept. 14, 1996 after presenting her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette)

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks at a ceremony where she was presented the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington in this June 15, 1999 file photo. Parks, the black seamstress whose refusal to give her seat on a Montgomery,

Rosa Parks, left, talks with President Clinton during a Capitol Hill ceremony where Ms. Parks was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal Tuesday, June 15, 1999, in Washington. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo/Khue Bui)

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks holds the hand of a well-wisher at a ceremony honoring the 46th anniversary of her arrest for civil disobedience Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001, at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo/Paul Warner)