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 takes her place in Washington memorial
The role of Rosa Parks in America's civil rights movement has been recognised with a statue nearly six decades after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus.
ITV News Washington Correspondent Robert Moore reports on the bus journey that helped change a nation, and that nation's journey since:
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