A bill commemorating the parks protest is the central feature of Rapid Transit Station plaza in the West End Dallas Area in Dallas. (© Alpha Stock / Alamy)
A new Rosa Parks sculpture was erected at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, created by Ian Mangum, a team member of the 42nd Force Support Squadron. (US Air Force / Senior Airman Charles Welty)
The U.S. Air Force unveiled a sculpture of her at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama on December 1, 2020, the 65th anniversary of Parks’ 1955 protest, adding a number of memorials honoring the civil rights icon, who died in 2005 at the age of 92.
This year, ShareAmerica is highlighting some of the monuments that pay tribute to the courageous protest of parks.
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee has a statute of Rosa Parks sitting on a bus. (© Randy Duchaine / Alamy)
Rosa Parks’ refusal to cede her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in 1955 inspired the civil rights movement in the United States.
The bus that Parks refused to give up her seat on in 1955 is on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. (© Bill Pugliano / Getty Images)
Parks worked as a seamstress at Maxwell Field in the 1940s before her protest in Montgomery, Alabama resulted in a citywide bus boycott, a turning point in the civil rights movement. She later owed her experience at the racially integrated federal agency to portraying a world without the discriminatory guidelines common in the south known as the Jim Crow Laws.
Parks are among those honored in the National Statuary Hall in the US Capitol in Washington. (© Alex Wong / Getty Images)
“You could just say Maxwell opened my eyes,” said Parks. “It was an alternative to Jim Crow’s ugly politics.”
A bill commemorating the parks protest is the central feature of Rapid Transit Station plaza in the West End Dallas Area in Dallas. (© Alpha Stock / Alamy)
Every February, Americans celebrate the achievements of Parks and others during Black History Month.
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