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Rosa Parks Funeral (20 images)



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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Jarome Ward, 21, from Detroit bows his head during prayer as part of a candlelight vigil by the NAACP for Rosa Parks November 1, 2005, outside of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Parks passed away in her Detroit home October 24. (UPI Photo/Scott R. Galvin)
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Painting of Rosa Parks in front of the Metropolitan AME Church where a memorial service for the civil rights icon was being held 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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The casket containing the body of Rosa Parks is removed from the U.S. Capitol during a ceremony on the East Front Steps of the Capitol in Washington on Oct. 31, 2005. Parks, who died last Monday at the age of 92, is the first woman and the second African-American to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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