MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR ROSA PARKS IN WASHINGTON.
Metro Bus drives carry flowers from vintage 1950's era bus parked in front of the Metropolitan AME Church during a memorial service for the civil rights icon Rosa Parks on October 31, 2005 in Washington, DC. More than 30,000 people at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda passed by the casket of the woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in 1955, sparking the American civil rights movement. (UPI Photo/Kamenko Pajic)
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