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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 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 Partial recording of the funeral recovered on VHS tape. 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 A church packed with 4,000 mourners celebrated the life of Rosa Parks Wednesday in an impassioned, song-filled funeral, with a crowd of notables giving thanks for the humble woman whose dignity Rosa’s moment in history came on December 1, 1955, when she was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on the orders of a Montgomery bus driver. In fact, that driver had kicked Rosa off the bus for doing exactly the same thing a dozen years earlier, but no one had noticed. In 1955, the results would be different. 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 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. 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. And so, perhaps what we are celebrating today – in addition to the fight, the noble fight – is how it was fought. Rosa Parks stands for every one of us improbable warriors, in every seemingly small moment where truth and justice are at risk. She offered every one of us this example of a splendid paradox – the paradox of quiet strength. 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. Rosa Parks, left, and Martin Luther King Jr., second from left, at an award ceremony in 1965Image: AP Photo/picture alliance On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who worked as a seamstress in a In 2022, the documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks was released on Peacock; it is the first full-length documentary about Parks. [177] Also that year, a major motion film Bowl Game Armageddon was announced, which will spotlight Rosa Parks and Emmett Till leading up to the 1956 Sugar Bowl and Atlanta riots [178] [166] The funeral procession for the great Rosa Parks, Washington, DC 10/05 Parks will return to Detroit where her body will lie in state at the Museum of African American History on Tuesday, Nov. 1, from 6 a.m. to midnight. Her funeral will be held Wednesday, Nov. 2 at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit at 11 a.m. Funeral Arrangements Entrusted to . Swanson Family of Funeral Homes, Detroit, MI O'Neil D. Swanson, CEO Rosa Parks funeral service. I wish I had 10,000 tongues just to thank you! Charles Adams 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. 564 Rosa Parks Reviews jobs available on Indeed.com. Apply to Customer Service Representative, Community Team Leader, Patient Services Representative and more! Dr. Joseph Lowery speaks at the Rosa Parks funeral Rosa Parks and Elaine Eason Steele co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development in February 1987, in honor of Rosa's husband, who died from cancer in 1977. The institute runs the "Pathways to Freedom" bus tours, which introduce young people to important civil rights and Underground Railroad sites throughout the country.
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