Aretha Franklin was to sing, and Philip Cousin, a senior bishop of the AME Church, had prepared a eulogy. The Rev Jesse Jackson, who has called Parks “the mother of a new America,” was to be one of several speakers at the funeral. There will never be another Rosa Parks,” said Moses Fisher, a Nashville, Tennessee, resident waiting for the chance to get a seat.Īs a white hearse carried Parks’ body from the Charles Wright Museum of African American History, where viewing lasted until the pre-dawn hours, dozens of people holding pictures of Parks crowded around it.Īs it began moving, they shouted, “We love you!” She was first in line and didn’t budge, even as temperatures dipped below 40 degrees (5 degrees Celsius). Hours before the funeral began, the line to get one of the 2,000 available public seats at the church extended more than two blocks west in Parks’ adopted hometown.Ĭlaudette Bond, 62, had been waiting since 6pm yesterday in a lawn chair. Mourners waited in long lines in the chilly morning to honour Parks. You have certainly earned it,” Ellis said.
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