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Rosa Parks Funeral (20 images)



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 92, will lay in honor until Tuesday afternoon. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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Richard Johnson, 49, of Detroit holds a painted picture of Rosa Parks during her funeral ceremony Nov. 2, 2005, at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. Parks passed away in her Detroit home on October 24. (UPI Photo/Scott R. Galvin)
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A military color guard carries the coffin of Rosa Parks out of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History November 2, 2005, to load into the hearse and head to the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit for the funeral. (UPI Photo/Scott R. Galvin)
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Bishop Charles H. Ellis III, left, host pastor, and Reverend Jesse Jackson listen in amusement to the words being said by Charles Adams, pastor of the Harford Memorial Baptist Church, about Rosa Parks during her funeral November 2, 2005, at the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit. Parks passed away in her Detroit home on October 24. (UPI Photo/Scott R. Galvin)
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