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Rosa Parks

Parks' coffin was flown to Montgomery

Saturday Oct 29, 2005
Montgomery, Alabama, U.S.

Parks' coffin was flown to Montgomery and taken in a horse-drawn hearse to the St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, where she lay in repose at the altar on October 29, 2005, dressed in the uniform of a church deaconess. A memorial service was held there the following morning.


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