Rosa Parks Recalled For Her Action

The statue of African-American civil rights activist Rosa Parks is seen in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington Monday, the anniversary of her courageous act of defiance 59 years ago today, when she refused to give up her seat on a segregated city bus to a white passenger in Montgomery, Ala. Her actions that day and the ensuing Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the modern civil rights movement. Parks is flanked by statues of suffragist Frances E. Willard of Illinois, left, and John Gorrie of Florida, the inventor of the refrigeration process. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)