See larger Rosa Parks smiles during a Capitol Hill ceremony where she 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. She was 92.

Khue Bui / Associated Press file photo

Rosa Parks smiles during a Capitol Hill ceremony where she 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. She was 92.

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