Related: US civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at age of 92

    WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Rosa Parks, a pioneer in the US civil rights movement who died Monday in Detroit, Michigan, would lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, the vast circular room under the Capitol dome.

    Under a resolution the House approved on Friday by voice vote, Parks would be honored in the Capitol on Sunday and Monday to so that "the citizens of the United States may pay their last respects to this great American."

    The Senate approved the resolution Thursday night.

    Parks, 92, would become the first woman to lie in honor in the Rotunda, and the second black American and second nongovernmental official to be commemorated that way.

    On December 1, 1955, 42-year-old Parks, a seamstress, refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, to a white man who wanted to sit in her row, despite a city ordinance requiring blacks to yield their seats to whites.

    She was jailed and fined 14 US dollars for her disobedience, and her arrest sparked a 382-day boycott by blacks of Montgomery's bus system and led to a 1956 Supreme Court decision that said discrimination in public transportation was unconstitutional.

    To date only about 30 have lain in state or honor in the Rotunda, and the last one was former President Ronald Reagan after his death in June last year. Enditem