And in Detroit, thousands of people are preparing to honor Rosa Parks at her funeral today. Over the past day, tens of thousands visited the Charles Wright Museum of African-American History in Detroit to pay their respects. The civil rights pioneer died last week at the age of 92. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is to give the eulogy and Aretha Franklin will sing. Yesterday Jackson called Rosa Parks “the mother of a new America.”
Rosa Parks To Be Laid to Rest in Detroit
HeadlineNov 02, 2005