A new Rosa Parks statue now stands tall in Montgomery, Alabama.
was memorialized in the city where she was once arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person ... and where a statue of her now stands tall.Steven Reed. There were other important people there too, though.was on hand for the unveiling as well -- she's one of the original plaintiffs in the Browder vs. Gayle case that ultimately desegregated buses in Montgomery a year after Parks was arrested.
Her refusal and the subsequent arrest sparked the Montgomery bus boycotts, which lasted for a whopping 381 days ... and severely hurt the transit companies' bottom line. The city eventually changed its segregation bus law once SCOTUS weighed in the following year.Rosa died of natural causes in 2005 at the age of 92. She remains a central figure in the civil rights movement of this country.
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