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Rosa Parks Funeral (20 images)



The casket containing the body of Rosa Parks lies in honor in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC 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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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, (R-TN), second from left, is accompanied by the new Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito (C), and is joined by his son Philip (L), daughter Laura, second from right, and his wife Martha (R), as they pay their respects to civil rights icon Rosa Parks in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, in Washington on Oct. 31, 2005. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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The hearse carrying the body of Rosa Parks, and a 1950's replica of the famous bus in which Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, leaves the U.S. Capitol after a 15 hour public viewing 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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A woman holds an artist's rendering 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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