US civil rights leader Rosa Parks honoured with a commemorative statue

Late US civil rights leader Rosa Parks has been honoured with a commemorative statue in the US Capitol building in Washington DC.
Rosa Parks is the first black woman with a full-length statue in the Capitol's Statuary Hall, where sculptures of scores of famous Americans stand.

Rosa Parks had been previously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1999, both during the Bill Clinton administration.

The US Postal Service also issued a stamp in her honour on February 4,2013 which would have been her 100th birthday.

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Rosa Parks became an icon in 1955 after her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat in Alabama to a white man.