Rosa Parks will be honored with a statue at Alabama’s Capitol in Montgomery — the first monument of a woman on the Capitol lawn, according to NBC News. Sponsored by Rep. Laura Hall through 2019 legislation, the project seeks to present “the full picture” of Alabama’s history, not just stories told by men or those who defended the Confederacy.
Parks’ act of defiance on December 1, 1955 — refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger — sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and became a catalyst for the modern civil rights movement. The statue will face Dexter Avenue, where she boarded that historic bus, standing across from a monument to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, reclaiming space nearly seventy years later.
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