Sixty four years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, the city unveiled a statue of the civil rights hero 30 feet away from where her protest occurred.
The statue was revealed yesterday afternoon in an event led by the city’s first African American mayor, Steven Reed, and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey.
“This depiction will inspire future generations to make the pilgrimage to our city, to push toward the path of righteousness, strength, courage and equality,” Reed said.
Parks’ brave act on Dec. 1, 1955, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It was a key moment in the American civil rights movement.
According to AL.com, the city also added granite markers at the site celebrating four female plaintiffs in Browder vs. Gayle, the court case that ruled that segregation on the city’s public busses was unconstitutional.
Mickey Welsh / Montgomery Advertiser
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Sixty four years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, the city unveiled a statue of the civil rights hero 30 feet away from where her protest occurred.
The statue was revealed yesterday afternoon in an event led by the city’s first African American mayor, Steven Reed, and Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey.
“This depiction will inspire future generations to make the pilgrimage to our city, to push toward the path of righteousness, strength, courage and equality,” Reed said.
Parks’ brave act on Dec. 1, 1955, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. It was a key moment in the American civil rights movement.
According to AL.com, the city also added granite markers at the site celebrating four female plaintiffs in Browder vs. Gayle, the court case that ruled that segregation on the city’s public busses was unconstitutional.