In pictures: Rosa Parks funeral

Four thousand mourners packed into a church in Detroit, Michigan, for the funeral of US civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

Mrs Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus sparked protests that eventually led to the end of legal segregation.

Dignitaries such as civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, spoke to the congregation.

Former US President Bill Clinton said Mrs Parks "struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry".

Hundreds of members of the public waited overnight to get a place for the service.

The church's pastor, Bishop Charles Ellis, said the seat waiting for in her heaven was reserved for her 50 years ago in Alabama.

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