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Alabama unveils statue of civil rights

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — gomery Bus Boycott, a piv- tion on Montgomery buses
A new statue of civil rights otal part of the civil rights was unconstitutional. One
pioneer Rosa Parks was movement. "This depiction of the plaintiffs, Mary Louise
dedicated in Alabama's will inspire future genera- Smith, took part in the cer-
capital city on Sunday, the tions to make the pilgrim- emony Sunday. Parks was
64th anniversary of her his- age to our city, to push 92 when she died in 2005.
toric refusal to give up her toward the path of righ- "For the city officials, from
seat on a public bus to a teousness, strength, cour- the city and the county, to
white man. Montgomery age and equality," Reed, be able to honor Mrs. Parks
Mayor Steven Reed and who recently became the and honor those plaintiffs,
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey first African American may- and even more importantly
pulled back a cloth to un- or of Montgomery, said at to honor the 40,000 African
veil the statue before a the ceremony, accord- American men and women Mary Louise Smith, a plaintiff in the Browder vs. Gayle case that
crowd of about 400 spec- ing to al.com. Four granite who stayed off of the buses desegregated buses in Montgomery, stands beside the Rosa
tators. The ceremony coin- markers near the statue for 382 days, it is indeed a Parks statue after its unveiling event in downtown Montgomery,
cided with the anniversary honor plaintiffs in Browder step in the right direction," Ala., Sunday, Dec. 1, 2019, the anniversary of her arrest for not
of Parks' Dec. 1, 1955 arrest v. Gayle, the court case Gray told the Montgomery giving up her seat on a city bus.
that sparked the Mont- that determined segrega- Advertiser.q Associated Press