U2 pay tribute to Rosa Parks

U2 paid tribute to the late civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks on Tuesday night (October 25th). in the city where she died the day before. Playing at the Palace of Auburn Hills in suburban Detroit, U2 frontman Bono invoked Parks' name in "Pride (In The Name Of Love)" and "Where The Streets Have No Name." He then dedicated "One" to her, telling the 20,000-plus in attendance that "because of her quiet dignity and strength, America became a better, changed country." He added that the "journey of equality continues today. We will carry it on. God bless you in your rest."

Parks made history in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, when she refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, as law dictated. She became the rallying point for a boycott that was one of the first successful demonstrations of the American civil liberties movement.

The activist died Monday (October 24th) at the age of 92 in Detroit, where she'd lived since 1957. Her funeral will take place November 2nd at the city's Greater Grace Church.

U2 resume their Vertigo world tour on Friday (October 28th) in Houston, Texas.