Rosa Parks to be honored with full sized statue on Capitol Hill - first of African American woman

A younger Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King in 1955. PHOTO/Wikimedia Commons

Bravery, tenacity and maybe a little of her own stubbornness led Rosa Parks to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus on a cold December day in 1955. That single act of defiance became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement - she became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation.

Ms. Parks will be honored with a statue of her likeness on Capitol Hill.

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