Rosa Parks will be honored with a new statue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, 64 years to the day she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a city bus
Rosa Parks will be honored with a new statue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday, 64 years to the day she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a city bus.
Sunday marks the second annual Rosa Parks Day in Alabama, after the state legislature approved the day honoring the civil rights icon last year. Events were slated to take place throughout the city of Montgomery this weekend, including the dedication of a statue of Parks on Sunday afternoon.Rosa Parks was on her way home from work on December 1, 1955, when she refused to give up her seat on a public bus for a white man.
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