| Michael Jackson Attended Rosa Parks' Funeral |
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| Thursday, 03 November 2005 14:39 |
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On Wednesday, Michael Jackson attended to Rosa Parks' funeral that was celebrated in Detroit. The King of the Pop assisted the long ceremony seated between Rosa's relatives. There were present tens of politicians, businessmen, religious leaders and people of the show business to give the woman, who gave life to the fights for the civil rights in America, the last goodbye; between them, beyond Michael, Jesse Jackson, the former president Bill Clinton, president George W. Bush and Aretha Franklin. The funeral ceremony lasted 7 hours, from the late morning to the first shadows of the evening, and has been a long celebration to Rosa Parks' life, to her battles for the civil rights and to the future that will not be able to forget her work. Rosa Parks died on October 24th at the age of 92 and since that day all the United States are paying her the honor that deserves. Mrs. Parks has been one of the more important activist of the movement for the civil rights and she was famous to refuse to leave her place on a bus to a white man in 1955 in Montgomery city. Her arrest caused the protest against the racial discriminations leaded by Martin Luther King Jr. |