Rosa Parks was honored with a new statue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama...64 years to the day she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a city bus.

A statue of Rosa Parks, seen here, is unveiled in Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday, December 1, 2019.
Rosa Parks statue in Alabama
(CNN)Rosa Parks was honored with a new statue in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday, 64 years to the day she was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a city bus.
Sunday marks the second annual Rosa Parks Day in Alabama, after the state legislature approved the day honoring the civil rights icon last year.
Rosa Parks <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/01/rosa.parks.anniversary/index.html">became one of the major symbols of the civil rights movement</a> after she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger in 1955. For 381 days, African-Americans boycotted public transportation to protest Parks' arrest and, in turn, segregation laws. The boycott led to a Supreme Court ruling desegregating public transportation in Montgomery. In this photo, Parks rides the bus a day after the Supreme Court ruling in 1956.
Rosa Parks in the front of the bus
Events were slated to take place throughout the city of Montgomery this weekend, including the dedication of a statue of Parks on Sunday afternoon"Today, on the second official Rosa Parks Day, we honor a seamstress and a servant, one whose courage ran counter to her physical stature," said Mayor Steven Reed, the city's first African American mayor. "She was a consummate contributor to equality and did so with a quiet humility that is an example for all of us.".
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