
Rosa Parks, who helped spark the fight for civil rights for blacks in the United States by triggering the Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott, was buried Wednesday in her adopted city of Detroit.
It's worth looking at the video of the Rev. Al Sharpton's and former U.S. President Bill Clinton's speeches attached to the CTV.ca story.
If you want to see an amazing bit of preaching, check out the video of Rev. Charles Adams:
Update
Democracy Now! has transcripts of remarks made at the funeral service by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bill Clinton, Rev. Bernice King (MLK Jr.'s daughter), Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Rev. Joseph Lowery (co-founder, Southern Christian Leadership Conference), Rev. Al Sharpton and Aretha Franklin, who sang this:
O Lord, I’ll fly away. Lord, I, Lord, I’ll fly away. O Glory, Lord, I’ll – oh, help me now – fly away to a land, to a land on God’s selection shore. Lord Jesus, I’ll, oh, I’ll fly, fly away. O Glory, o Glory, I’ll – come on and sing it with me – fly away. O Glory, Lord, I – she flew away. Oh, when, Lord, when I die, Hallelujah, o Hallelujah, by and by, oh, I’ll fly – there was Moses, and then there was Rosa – she flew away.
The show also has a transcript of remarks from the memorial service in Washington, D.C. on Monday, which featured Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson, Julian Bond and other.