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Rosa Parks Funeral (20 images)



People paying tribute to Rosa Parks stand 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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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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The casket containing the remains of civil rights icon Rosa Parks is taken into the Capitol for a public viewing and honor ceremony in Washington on Oct. 30, 2005. Parks, who died in Detroit on Monday at the age of 92, will lay in honor in the Rotunda until Tuesday afternoon.. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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