Thousands of people paid tribute to Rosa Parks at funeral service in Detroit Wednesday. Long before the funeral, the line to get one of the 2,000 available public seats at the church extended Past and present elected officials, Congressional Black Caucus members, civil rights leaders, noted clergy, and other dignitaries attended the funeral of Rosa Parks, who died October 24, 2005 at By 7:30 a.m., the line for the funeral extended more than two blocks west of the church with about 800 people waiting. Parks was 92 when she died Oct. 24 in Detroit. Thousands of people celebrated the life of Rosa Parks Wednesday at a funeral for the civil rights icon, who died last week at the age of 92. Jerome Vaughn of Detroit Public Radio shares moments Mourners waited in long lines in the chilly morning to honor Parks. Hours before the funeral began, the line to get one of the 2,000 available public seats at the church extended more than two "Mother Parks, take your rest. You have certainly earned it," Ellis said. Mourners waited in long lines in the chilly morning to honor Parks. Hours before the funeral began, the line to get one of the 2,000 available public seats at the church extended more than two blocks west in Parks' adopted hometown. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 Parks' funeral service, seven hours long, was held on Wednesday, November 2, at the Greater Grace Temple Church With her body and casket returned to Detroit, for two days, Parks lay in repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Her funeral service was seven hours long and was held on November 2, 2005, at the Greater Grace Temple Church in Detroit. Thousands of people have attended the funeral of US civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who died last week aged 92. Former US President Bill Clinton led the tributes at the ceremony in Detroit, Michigan, her home since 1957. Among the mourners were civil rights leader Jesse Jackson and singer Aretha Franklin. 4,000 throng Rosa Parks’ funeral in Detroit . Originally published November 2, 2005 at 12:00 am Updated November 2, Mourners waited in long lines in the chilly morning to honor Parks. Hours Parks, who died Oct. 24 at age 92, made history even in death. She became the first woman, and only the 30th American, to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. It’s around here where Ilitch comes into the picture. According to Detroit historian Jamon Jordan (you can watch him in action on our tour of significant sites impacted by the 1967 riots, as part of BLAC's #1967At50 project), Conyers, former mayor Coleman Young, then-mayor Dennis Archer and late radio legend Martha Jean “The Queen” Steinberg pooled some funds to cover Parks’ initial DETROIT (AP) - Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday. She was 92. Mrs. Parks died at her home of natural causes, Rosa Parks’ Eulogy Presented by Oprah Winfrey. Reverend Braxton, family, friends, admirers, and this amazing choir: I feel it an honor to be here to come and say a final goodbye. I grew up in the South, and Rosa Parks was a hero to me long before I recognized and understood the power and impact that her life embodied. On October 24, 2005, Rosa Parks, a key figure in the American civil rights movement, passed away at the age of 92 in Detroit, Michigan. Parks is best remembered for her courageous act of defiance in 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This small but powerful gesture sparked the Montgomery Bus Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the The Detroit Community Choir from the Funeral of Civil Rights legend Rosa Parks at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Parks' funeral was held there on Nov. 2, 2005. The mother of the civil rights died on Oct. 24, 2005, in Detroit at age 92. Her funeral was scheduled for three hours but lasted more than seven And still the journey—like the movement itself—carried onward, making its way back to Detroit, where the body of Rosa Parks was eventually delivered to the Greater Grace Temple Church for her final funeral service on November 2, 2005. A line of mourners hoping to claim one of the 2,000 available seats stretched for blocks.
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