![]() ![]() ![]() Singers, politicians, civil rights leaders in attendance You have certainly earned it,” said Bishop Charles Ellis III of Greater Grace Temple, who led the service. Those in the audience held hands and sang the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome” as family members filed past her casket before it was closed. 24 to Montgomery, Ala., where she sparked the civil rights movement 50 years ago by refusing to give her bus seat to a white man to Washington, where she became the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. The funeral, which stretched well past its three-hour scheduled time, followed a week of remembrances during which Parks’ coffin was brought from Detroit, where she died Oct. “And yet when the history of this country is written, it is this small, quiet woman whose name will be remembered long after the names of senators and presidents have been forgotten.” “The woman we honored today held no public office, she wasn’t a wealthy woman, didn’t appear in the society pages,” said Sen. ![]()
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