In attendance were former President Jimmy Carter, Winnie Mandela, the ex-wife of South Africa's post-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, and several senators and members of Congress.Īs the crowd of 4,000 held hands and sang out the Lord's Prayer and "We Shall Overcome," family members filed past the casket before it was closed. Jesse Jackson and singing by Aretha Franklin. The service also featured remarks by the Rev. "But a war nonetheless for one America in which the law of the land means the same thing for everybody." "This time Rosa's war was fought by Martin Luther King's rules, civil disobedience, peaceful resistance," Mr. "So this is the little lady who started the great war," Mr. Parks was a petite woman, and said it brought to his mind Abraham Lincoln's remark upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Clinton said, she "ignited the most significant social movement in modern American history."
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