![]() ![]() But her modest estate isn’t the real issue. Parks had no children and her husband died before her. For years they have feuded with the people Parks appointed to handle her affairs, longtime friend Elaine Steele and retired Detroit Judge Adam Shakoor. McCauley is one of 13 nieces and nephews who have asked a Detroit judge to throw out Parks’ will and place a nephew, William McCauley, in charge of her estate. “We just don’t think our aunt would have wanted it this way,” said McCauley, who grew up near Parks in Detroit and now lives in suburban Atlanta. But to Susan McCauley and other relatives of Parks, the sale cheapened the name of the quiet, unassuming woman whose act of defiance 50 years ago on a Montgomery, Ala., bus altered American history. ![]() At $10 apiece, they sold out in three days following the November ceremony. ![]() ran off 10,000 copies of the glossy four-color obituary programs from Rosa Parks’ funeral, demand for them was phenomenal. ![]()
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