The statue of Miss Parks was revealed yesterday at the National Statuary Hall inside the U.S. Capitol.
To my surprise, there are many people who are of the opinion that Miss Parks didn`t really do anything of value.
All she did was refuse to give up her seat on?
Possible if you look at this on the small scale it seems insignificant but on a larger scale, it signifies the resistance towards discrimination and racial segregation which was so prevalent in American , especially in the south.
Her brave act of defiance on 1 December 1955, started off the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ended on 20 December 1056 when The United States Supreme Court declared that laws which segregated buses in Montgomery and Alabama was unconstitutional.
President Obama was there for the unveiling of the statue and put things in perspective: "Rosa Parks held no elected office," he said. "She possessed no fortune; lived her life far from the formal seats of power. And yet today, she takes her rightful place among those who’ve shaped this nation’s course."
Rosa Parks, 100th birthday was celebrated on the 4th February 2013 and her requests have been fulfilled when she said: "I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free."
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