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Parks eventually received many honors ranging from the 1979 Spingarn Medal to the Presidential Medal of Freedom , the Congressional Gold Medal and a posthumous statue in the United States Capitol's National Statuary Hall . Her death in 2005 was a major story in the United States' leading newspapers.
In 2006, Ms. Parks was honored nationally, again, and posthumously when her remains were transferred to Washington DC's Capitol Rotunda.
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The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a large political rally in support of civil and economic rights for African-Americans that took place in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his historic " I Have a Dream " speech advocating racial harmony at the Lincoln Memorial during the march. The march was organized by a group of civil rights, labor, and religious organizations, under the theme "jobs, and freedom." Estimates of the number of participants varied from 200,000 (police) to over 300,000 (leaders of the march). Observers estimated that 75 -80% of the marchers were black and the rest were white and other minorities. The march is widely credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965) .
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