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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 She died in her apartment in a Detroit nursing home at the age of 92. She was the 31st person, the first woman, and the second African-American (the first was Jacob Chestnut) to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. She was interred next to her husband and her mother at the Detroit Woodlawn Cemetery's mausoleum. 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 The funeral, which originally was scheduled to last three hours, stretched on for more than seven. Upon its conclusion, Rosa Parks’ body was placed onto an antique gold-trimmed horse-drawn carriage and delivered to her final resting place in Detroit’s Woodlawn Cemetery. Plans had originally called for Parks to be buried next to her husband and mother in a family plot in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery. 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, 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. Rosa Parks was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit. The funeral service took place on November 2, 2005. She was buried between her husband and mother. DETROIT – A soaring rendition of “The Lord’s Prayer” moved thousands of mourners at the funeral of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks on today, with a preacher bidding: “Mother Parks, take your 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. 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, a name that resonates with courage and defiance, ushered in a new era of civil rights in the United States. Her singular act of refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, ignited a movement that would change the course of American history. 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. On this day in 2005, Rosa Parks, a civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days of public viewing. Parks was the first woman and the 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 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 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. You have funeral questions, we have Rosa Parks is one of the most recognizable faces of the Civil Rights Movement. 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. Alabama native and civil rights icon Rosa Parks received a similar honor when she died in 2005. Here's what the difference is between the honors both women received: Laying in state vs. laying in 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.
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