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Rosa Parks Statue to be Unveiled Sunday

Associated Press

   MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - A new statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks
   will stand in downtown Montgomery.

   The city said the statue will be unveiled Sunday at 1 p.m. at
   Montgomery Plaza at the Court Street Fountain.

   The unveiling coincides with the anniversary of Parks' historic Dec. 1,
   1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white
   man. Her arrest sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal moment in
   the civil rights movement.

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