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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 Dozens of notables spoke during the service, which ran more than six hours. Featured speakers included senators John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, the Reverend Al Sharpton and Minister Louis Rosa Parks was lain in honor in our nation’s Capitol, in the great Rotunda that’s reserved only for war heroes and for Presidents. But she was not a President. She was, though, a war hero. She was a heroic warrior for equality, and that alone, my God, surely is enough for a nation to celebrate. Speakers described Parks, who died at 92, as both a warrior and a woman of peace who never stopped working toward a future of racial equality. BLOCK: That's Johnny Carr, a longtime friend of Rosa Parks, speaking at today's memorial service in Washington. Television icon Oprah Winfrey thanked Parks for being the hero that black I'm Daryn Kagan at CNN Center in Atlanta. This is CNN's special coverage of the funeral for the woman affectionately known as the mother of the civil rights movement, Rosa Parks. Lawmakers and 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 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 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 Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson will deliver the eulogy, and soul legend Aretha Franklin will sing during the service at the 4,000-seat church in Parks's adopted hometown. Activists Rosa Parks funeral service. I wish I had 10,000 tongues just to thank you! Charles Adams 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 the crowd waited quietly in ever-lengthening lines for the viewing, bundled up against the night chill, some held signs that read, "Thank You, Rosa Parks." Others spoke of "Miss Rosa" and her 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. Following a period during which Ms. Parks was honored by lying in repose in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, a memorial service was held to honor her life and legacy prior to her funeral scheduled in Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave. Oprah Winfrey. Eulogy for Rosa Parks "God uses good people to do great things." delivered 31 October 2005, Metropolitan AME Church, Washington D.C. Rosa Parks died in late October, 50 years after her brave stand on a segregated Alabama bus. Her defiant act was the symbolic push the civil-rights movement needed. Her legacy is inspirational, but The latter’s 2005 funeral had been among Adams’ career highlights as he gave a memorable speech praising Parks for helping Black Americans “sit in higher seats.” Rosa Parks ignited the most significant social movement inmodern American history to finish the work that spawned the Civil Warand redeem the promise of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
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