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WASHINGTON Linking hands and singing "We Shall Overcome," old friends and Washington's establishment remembered Rosa Parks on Monday as a quiet, gentle woman whose courage in the face of segregation helped inspire generations.
An overflow church crowd paid tribute to the woman whose refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Ala., city bus 50 years ago helped galvanize the modern civil rights movement. The two-day farewell and "homegoing" in Washington also attracted tens of thousands who stood for hours for a glimpse of Parks' mahogany coffin in the Capitol Rotunda.See the full content of this document
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Rosa Parks' Courage Celebrated
In a three-hour memorial service at historic Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, Parks was celebrated by political, religious and civil rights leaders and other luminari...
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