Aretha sings "The Impossible Dream" at the final services of Miss Rosa Parks Aretha Franklin sings during the funeral for Rosa Parks at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan on Wednesday. Jeff Kowalsky / Sipa Press Aretha Franklin's funeral will be held at the Detroit church where the legendary musician sang at Rosa Parks' funeral, an official with the church and her publicist said Friday. Rosa Parks Funeral (Captions by VDB Aretha Sings) Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, actress, pianist, and civil rights activist.[2] Franklin began her career as a child singing gospel at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where her father C. L. Franklin was a minister. At the age of 18, she embarked on a secular-music career as a recording artist for Columbia Records Rev. Jesse Jackson will deliver the eulogy and Aretha Franklin will sing during Wednesday funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. CBC News · Posted: Nov 02, 2005 6:52 AM EST | Last Updated DETROIT - NOVEMBER 2: Singer Aretha Franklin sings at civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks' funeral November 2, 2005 at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, Michigan. Rosa Parks, who died October 24 at the age of 92, will always be remembered as the woman who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, an incident that The church, Greater Grace Temple, with room for 4,000 people, had been the site of Rosa Parks’ funeral in 2005 — where Franklin was a featured performer. “Thank you, Lord, for Aretha,” a Aretha Franklin was to sing, and Philip R. Cousin, a senior bishop of the AME Church, had prepared a eulogy. Parks was 92 when she died Oct. 24 in Detroit. Nearly 50 years earlier, she was a 42-year-old tailor's assistant at a department store in Montgomery, Ala., when she was arrested and fined $10 plus $4 in court costs for refusing to give Soul music legend Aretha Franklin performed during the funeral for civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. She sang "The Impossible Dream" before a crowd of thousands gathered at Detroit's Greater Grace Temple. Rosa Parks funeral service. I wish I had 10,000 tongues just to thank you! Charles Adams Here is the Aretha Franklin funeral program, and it's epic. Amy Huschka. Rosa Parks' funeral was held there on Nov. 2, 2005. The mother of the civil rights died on Oct. 24, 2005, in Detroit at Find more from PBS NewsHour at to our YouTube channel: us:Facebook: Aretha Franklin's funeral events Greater Grace, which seats about 4,000, has been the site of funerals for many notable Detroit figures, including Rosa Parks, Marcus Belgrave and the Four Tops Legendary singer Aretha Franklin will be taken to her final resting place in the same hearse that drove Rosa Parks. Franklin died on August 16 of pancreatic cancer at age 76. The casket was carried to the church that also took Franklin's father, the renowned minister C.L. Franklin, and civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks to their final resting places at Woodlawn Cemetery Woodlawn is also home to the graves of civil rights luminary Rosa Parks. The interment ends the formal mourning for Franklin, who was dressed in four different outfits for open-casket viewings in The 1940 Cadillac LaSalle carried Franklin's father in 1984 and Rosa Parks in 2005. Swanson was at Aretha Franklin’s side, escorting her in his white tuxedo at the funeral service, the Read more about Aretha Franklin: Family: Funeral will be private. Need a break? Parks was interred in 2005 at a mausoleum that was renamed the Rosa L. Parks Freedom Chapel. The Free Press He delivered the eulogy at Aretha's father CL Franklin's funeral too. the church where the Queen of Soul was a featured performer at US civil rights champion Rosa Parks' funeral.
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