Thursday, February 28, 2013

NYT: Rosa Parks Statue Is Unveiled

WASHINGTON - More than half a century after Rosa Parks helped kindle the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama, she has become the first black woman to be honored with a life-size statue in the Capitol.  Read more...  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/us/politics/statue-of-rosa-parks-is-unveiled-at-the-capitol.xml