People Of WFIT Tue February 12, 2013 Rosa Parks Statue,
Capitol's First Of African-American Woman, To Be Dedicated The
late civil rights icon Rosa Parks, who broke racial barriers in
1955 when she would not move to the back of a segregated bus in
Montgomery, Ala., will be posthumously part of another barrier-
breaking moment on Feb. 27. The office of House Speaker John
Boehner, R-Ohio, announced Tuesday that a statue of Parks will
be dedicated that day in the National Statuary Hall of the U.S.
Capitol. According to Boehner's office, "this will be the first
statue of an African-American woman to be placed in the Capitol
as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection." President
George W. Bush signed legislation in 2005 that directed Congress
to add a statue of Parks to the Capitol's collection. Parks, who
would have turned 100 this month, died in 2005.