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Rosa Parks Immortalized With Statue at U.S. Capitol

Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Immortalized With Statue at U.S. Capitol

02/27/2013

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Rosa Parks Immortalized With Statue at U.S. Capitol

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Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Immortalized With Statue at U.S. Capitol

A statue of civil rights icon Rosa Parks was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall. Parks was the first woman and only the second African-American to lie in state in the rotunda after she died in 2005. Gwen Ifill reports on the ceremony.

02/27/2013

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