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TIL On Oct 30, 2005, Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days. She was the first woman and the second African-American to lie in state there. She was the 31st person and the first American not a U.S. government official.

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