US civil rights activist hailed
US President Barack Obama has unveiled a statue of famed civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus was a key moment in African-American's struggle for civil rights.
Rosa Parks statue unveiled by Barack Obama
President Barack Obama has unveiled a statue of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Alabama, 1955.
Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat which helped start the Montgomery bus boycott that brought Martin Luther King to prominence.
Parks, who died in October 2005, becomes the first black woman to be honored with a full-length statue in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.
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