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“The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry,” said Clinton, who remembered riding segregated buses in his native Arkansas until Parks’ stand allowed him and others to break through that barrier of racism.

Clinton once presented Parks with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm called Parks a “heroic warrior for equality.”

“Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn’t,” Granholm said. “She was unexpected. She was untitled. … (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.”

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Rosa Parks resided in Detroit until she died at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005, at about 19:00 hours EDT, at her apartment in a nursing home on the east side. She was diagnosed with progressive dementia in 2004.

The United States Senate passed a resolution on October 27 to honor Parks by allowing her remains to lie in honor (also known as “lying in state”) in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. The House of Representatives approved the resolution on October 28. Parks became the 31st person so honored since the practice began in 1852, the first woman to ever lie in state in the Rotunda, the first American who was not previously a government official, and the second non-government official after the remains of Frenchman Pierre L’Enfant were brought to the capitol in 1909. She was also the second black person, after Jacob J. Chestnut, one of the two United States Capitol Police officers who were fatally shot in 1998. Prior to Parks, the most recent person to lie in state was former President Ronald Reagan in 2004.