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Rosa Parks was later entombed in a mausoleum in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery. and other dignitaries attended the funeral of Rosa Parks, who died October 24, 2005 at age 92. Reverend Jesse Thousands of people paid tribute to Rosa Parks at funeral service in Detroit Wednesday. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. The Detroit Community Choir singing at the funeral for civil rights legend Rosa Parks. The funeral was held at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit, where Bisho Rosa Parks, the unassuming seamstress whose small act of defiance on a city bus 50 years ago helped spark the modern civil rights movement, was memorialized today in Detroit in a lavish funeral 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 DETROIT – A soaring rendition of "The Lord's Prayer" moved thousands of mourners at the funeral of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks (search) on Wednesday, with a preacher bidding: "Mother Parks AP/Detroit Free Press, P. Beck Dwayne Webb Sr., 44, of Detroit salutes as the Rosa Parks funeral procession passes him in Detroit early Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005. Webb said he came to honor to the They moved to Detroit with Rosa Parks' mother, Leona McCauley, in 1957. Parks was initially going to be buried a family plot in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery, next to her husband and mother. But Swanson Funeral Home officials confirmed Tuesday that Parks would be entombed in a mausoleum at the cemetery and the bodies of her husband and mother DETROIT — In a seven-hour funeral filled with song and impassioned eulogies, thousands of mourners crowded into Greater Grace Temple on Wednesday to pay final respects to Rosa Louise Parks, the 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. A Michigan public act established Rosa Parks Day, celebrated on the first Monday following her February 4 birthday. Rosa Parks was 92 years old when she died in her Detroit home on October 24, 2005. The front seats of city buses in Detroit and Montgomery were adorned with black ribbons in the days preceding her funeral. Andrews Funeral Home in Detroit, MI, is a caring and experienced place you can turn to during difficult times. 12809 Rosa Parks Boulevard | Detroit, MI 48238 Rosa Parks funeral service. I wish I had 10,000 tongues just to thank you! Charles Adams Civil rights activist Rosa Parks will lie in state in Montgomery, Alabama, the city where she started a nationwide civil rights movement, before her body is flown back to Detroit for funeral services. Parks' body will lie in state at the church where she had been a member, St. Paul AME Church, in Montgomery on Saturday, Oct. 29, and Sunday, Oct 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. Most known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks’ other contributions are often overlooked, especially after she moved to Detroit with her husband, Raymond Parks, in August 1957. The Rosa Louise (McCauley) and Raymond Parks Flat is her most well-known and important residence in the City of Detroit, but it The Detroit native had paid for Rosa Parks' apartment in a safer area of the city. CNN — Those who knew Mike Ilitch, the Little Caesars founder and Detroit Tigers owner who died last Friday, But perhaps the most famous person buried at Woodlawn is Rosa Parks, "mother of the Civil Rights Movement." After being interred in the chapel in 2005, the building was renamed in her honor. “The Woodlawn family feels very strongly that Mrs. Parks’ final resting place should be a secure and dignified environment where generations can come (31 Oct 2005) SHOTLIST1. Wide shot of hearse and vintage bus arrival2. Medium shot of hearse 3. Wide shot of bus4. Casket carried by soldiers up the Capitol Up for sale is a lot of two (2) memorial service and funeral items published and distributed following the death of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 -- October 24, 2005):Official program book for service held at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Michigan (14 pages) Biography published by Charles H. Wright
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