Honoring Rosa Parks

Boston, along with numerous other cities including; Detroit, Cleveland, Newark, DC, New York City and Philly, honored Rosa Parks by leaving a bus seat empty on each of the city's buses to commemorate her heroic act in 1955 of refusing to give up her seat to a white man. Ms. Parks recently passed away, and just today President Bush announced that a statue would be erected in her honor at the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.

For more information on Boston's plans for today in honoring Ms. Parks, read this Boston Globe article.

To learn more about Rosa Parks and her story visit the Montgomery Boycott website.

Image courtesy of Elise Amendola Associated Press for the New York Times.