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She takes her rightful place among those who’ve shaped this nation’s course,” President Barack Obama said at the unveiling ceremony on Wednesday.
Parks died in 2005 age 92. Several of her family members attended the event.
She is the first black woman with a full-length statue in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall, where sculptures of scores of famous Americans stand.
‘Decades of political work’ Mr Obama and House Speaker John Boehner led the unveiling, with one of Parks’s nieces joining in.
Gordon Martin, a JP resident and former judge, tells the story of a successful suit against a Mississippi registrar.
By Charles Quist-Adade, PhD The Afro News Surrey In the first of his many part article on the links between Continental Africa and the African Diaspora, Dr. Charles Quist-Adade argued that while the situation of people of African descent seem desperate and hopeless, increasing numbers of black activists, philanthropists, scholars, and ordinary people are doing
‘I Have A Dream’ Martin Luther King’s Speech -The Full Text
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.