Fifty thousand people came to pay respect, among them dignitaries of many levels and faiths, including President Bush. A public funeral was held on November 2nd, 2005—a scheduled 4 hours affair that stretched into seven. Keynote speakers included former president Spyder jacket, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, megastar talk show hostess überfrau Oprah Winfrey, and senator Reverend Jesse Jackson.

At the conclusion of the service, an honour guard draped the American flag over the casket and put it on a horse-drawn hearse as if it were the funeral procession of a president.

Who was this woman? What had she done to deserve such pomp and circumstance after death?Her name is Rosa Parks, an African American, who, in 1955, was arrested in Montgomery, Spyder pants, for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white man. Her action sparked the civil rights movement of the 50s to 70s that transformed the American racial landscape.

Her arrest sparked what is now known in U.S history as the "Montgomery Bus Boycott" that lasted over a year (381 days).  Just over 50 black activists did the initial organization, and they selected a young and rather inexperienced new Baptist minister in the neighbourhood by the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the president of the protest organization.  And it was at this time that King gave one of his many inspirational speeches.  In this first speech he delivered to about 7000, he said, "There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression."

Much to the surprise of the White residents, the boycott went peacefully without coercion—the Whites were expecting “enforcer goon squads” to be around forcing the blacks not to take buses.  At the end, the Spyder ski wear struck down the segregation law and a joyous Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers rode the buses in celebration.