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Parks was 92 when she died Oct. 24 in Detroit. Fifty 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 Yesterday, hundreds of celebrities and dignitaries joined others to pay their final respects to Rosa Parks. The civil rights icon died on October 24th at the age of 92. Parks is remembered as 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, 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 In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, a barber who was deeply involved in the fight for civil rights. Together, they became active members of their community. Rosa worked as a seamstress, quietly stitching clothes during the day while working with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in the evenings. 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 The casket containing the remains of civil rights icon Rosa Parks lies on display in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington on Oct. 30, 2005. Parks, who died in Detroit on Monday at the age of 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, 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 Her funeral service was seven hours long and was held on November 2, 2005, at the Greater Grace Temple Church in Detroit. 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. The day following Rosa’s arrest, the Women’s Political Council called for a one-day, city-wide bus boycott. On December 5th, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) which voted to extend the growing Montgomery Bus Boycott indefinitely. 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 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 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 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. 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. I want to welcome former Atlanta mayor and former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Andrew Young, was one of the principal lieutenants of the civil rights movement that Parks helped usher in. He joins us again to talk about the funeral and the life and the legacy of Rosa Parks. Take us back to the day you first became aware of Rosa Parks. 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, She Would Not Be Moved: how we tell the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott. New York: The New Press, 2005. ISBN 1595580204; Parks, Rosa, with James Haskins. Rosa Parks, My Story. New York: Dial Books, 1992. ISBN 0803706731; Parks, Rosa, with Gregory J. Reed. Quiet Strength. Zondervan, 1994. ISBN 978-0310501503 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
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