Mourners viewing Aretha Franklin’s coffin (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, Pool)
Two days of public viewings for Aretha Franklin are under way in Detroit.
Well-wishers are arriving at the culturally significant Charles H Wright Museum of African American History, where the Queen of Soul’s body is lying in state.
Wellwishers see Aretha Franklin’s coffin (Paul Sancya/AP)Memorial items at New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit (Paul Sancya/AP)Police help with a barricade at the museum (Carlos Osorio/AP)Felicia Phillips, Alice Howard, Rochelle Hampton and Imogene King-Dugan sing as they wait in line (Carlos Osorio/AP)The museum is where civil rights heroine Rosa Parks lay in repose after her death in 2005 (Paul Sancya/AP)It was the largest black museum in the US until the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in Washington DC in 2016 (Paul Sancya/AP)Mourners brought along their own memorabilia (Paul Sancya/AP)
In Pictures: Mourners queue to see Aretha Franklin lying in state
