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ROSA PARKS: THE WOMAN WHO CHANGED A NATION On Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday I can’t imagine preaching on a finer champion of racial justice than Rosa Parks who died a couple years ago and was a woman who literally changed the course of American history, while helping set King’s very career into motion. 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. Rosa Parks funeral service. I wish I had 10,000 tongues just to thank you! Charles Adams The Detroit Community Choir from the Funeral of Civil Rights legend Rosa Parks at Greater Grace Temple 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. Oprah Winfrey. Eulogy for Rosa Parks "God uses good people to do great things." delivered 31 October 2005, Metropolitan AME Church, Washington D.C. Free Sermons and Sermon Outlines for Preaching : Sermons on Rosa Parks: showing 1-15 of 10,210 Rosa Parks was a disciple of Christ and, therefore, we cannot celebrate death, because there is no death for those who die in the Lord, as the scripture teaches. Jesus said, “If any man would be Rosa Parks' funeral draws the famous and the unknown, united in appreciation and a belief that the struggle for civil rights is unfinished. Rosa Parks' funeral draws the famous and the unknown Oprah Winfrey - Eulogy for Rosa Parks 2:12 min 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. I remember my father telling me about this colored woman who had refused to give up her seat. 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 As an intellectual, the vocabulary Adams used in sermons was expansive, Trent said. One of Adams’ most iconic speeches was a prayer he delivered at the funeral of Rosa Parks in 2005. Trent loved seeing the smile on Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was standing behind Adams and, by the end of the speech, was jumping up and down in excitement. November 2, 2005 | Clip Of Rosa Parks Funeral Service This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN. User Clip: 10,000 Toungues The alleged youthful teasing of 14-year-old African American Emmett Till with white store clerk Carolyn Bryant, on August 28, 1955, led to his brutal murder at the hands of Bryant’s husband Roy and his half-brother, J.W. Till's death was the catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. When the Rev. Charles Adams gave his iconic “thank ya” speech at Rosa Parks’ funeral in 2005, he introduced the world to the theological genius we in Detroit called our own. Al Sharpton's Remarks at Rosa Parks' Funeral. A half-century earlier, on a December evening in 1955, Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, and had become the catalyst for a civil-rights Despite his numerous accolades, Rev. Adams’ sense of gratitude was as immense as the considerable praises he received throughout his life. Most notably, while at Rosa Parks’s funeral held at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit on November 2, 2005, Rev. Adams delivered a memorable sermon, eloquently expressing gratitude in various languages. November 2, 2005 at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit Rosa Parks sat on the only available seat when she entered the bus. This was a perfectly normal thing to do on the ride home from her job as a department store tailor. However, when she declined to move, out of fatigue, her reasonable behavior created a controversy amongst those present. She was removed from the bus and arrested.
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