Detroit ? Never brash, Rosa Parks downplayed her celebrity in life. But in death, as she lay in honor at a local museum awaiting final burial today, Detroit withheld no tribute.

Crowds filed into the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History to see her casket. Out front, they gathered around the restored Alabama bus where she refused to give up her seat to a white man a half century ago.

Rosa Parks adopted Detroit as her hometown in 1957 after death threats drove her from Alabama. And since she passed away on Oct. 24 at age 92, the city has treated her like a native daughter, sparing no pomp.

A week ago, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick ordered the seat on city buses representing where Parks sat in Montgomery to be cordoned off with black ribbon. A military guard met her casket at the Detroit Metro Airport when she returned Monday night after lying in honor at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.

Today, Parks will be buried at Woodlawn Cemetery after a service at Detroit’s Greater Grace Temple. The ceremony is expected to draw a host of dignitaries including former President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Nation of Islam minister Louis Farrakhan and others.