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Rosa Parks Funeral Multimedia Links

  • Updated:1/30/2007 10:48:59 AM - Posted: 11/7/2005 1:06:21 PM
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Funeral services in Detroit at the Greater Grace Temple on November 3, 2005, honoring Rosa Parks, lasted seven hours, stretching from late morning into the early darkness. It was a celebration of her life rather than a mourning of her passing. More than three dozen politicians and business and religious leaders shared memories of the woman credited with giving birth to the modern civil rights movement.

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Here are links to video clips of speakers

  • Stefaenee Morrison: Hymn of Celebration
  • The Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm
  • Senator Barack Obama
  • Former President Bill Clinton
  • Congressman John Conyers
  • Congressman John Dingell
  • Senator Hilary Clinton
  • Senator Carl Levin
  • Louis Farrakhan, Nation of Islam
  • Al Sharpton, president, National Action Network
  • Bishop T.D. Jakes
  • Jesse Jackson

    Here are links to audio podcasts of the Funeral. These are complete as we could make them. We lost about 20 mintues of speakers when our server crashed and we lost our satellite link due to the rain that started to fall in Detroit near the end of the service.

    Podcasts

  • Rosa Parks Funeral - Part 1 - (right click to download)
  • Rosa Parks Funeral - Part 2 - (right click to download)
  • Rosa Parks Funeral - Jesse Jackson - (right click to download) - This audio is also part of Part 2



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