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.
