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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRosa Parks Statue Unveiled At Capitol. Boehner suggests moving it to the back of Statuary Hall
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TPM | February 27, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama and congressional leaders unveiled a full-length statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in the Capitol Wednesday, paying tribute to a figure whose name became synonymous with courage in the face of injustice.
Parks becomes the first black woman to be honored with a full-length statue in the Capitols Statuary Hall. A bust of another black woman, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, sits in the Capitol Visitors Center.
Obama said that with the installation of the statue, Parks, who died in 2005, has taken her rightful place among those who have shaped the course of U.S. history. He said her presence in Capitol would serve to remind us no matter how humble or lofty our positions, just what it is that leadership requires.
Obama and House Speaker John Boehner jointly led the unveiling, standing with the statue between them as they grasped and pulled in opposite directions on the braided cord that held the covering. Congressional leaders in the House and Senate joined Parks niece in tugging on the cord.
Meanwhile, over at the Supreme Court, the oxymoronically named Justice Scalia argued it was wrong for people of certain races to believe they were entitled to vote.
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Rosa Parks Statue Unveiled At Capitol. Boehner suggests moving it to the back of Statuary Hall (Original Post)
Bucky
Feb 2013
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,640 posts)1. Boehner and Scalia: Disgusting behavior.
cody1
(3 posts)2. Rosa Parks Statue Unveiled At Capitol
Thanks for the information. Just saw the video also here :http://news.yahoo.com/rosa-parks-statue-unveiled-capitol-165811836.html
Rhiannon12866
(205,510 posts)3. Thanks so much! Haven't been home much today, so I missed this...
And welcome to DU, cody1! It's great to have you with us!
tpsbmam
(3,927 posts)4. I thought this was going to be a Borowitz piece....I can't believe someone had the nerve to
suggest that with THIS woman! The symbolism is beyond glaring here. God ReTHUGS are vile "human beings" these days....as contemptuous as the politicians that wrote & upheld Jim Crow laws of the kind that Rosa Parks stood up to when she was told to move to the back of the bus.