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A new Rosa Parks sculpture created by Ian Mangum, a 42nd Force Support Squadron team member, sits on display shortly after its unveiling Dec. 1, 2020, on Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. Many people may know of the work Rosa Parks did during the civil rights movement, but less may know she worked on Maxwell Air Force Base in the 1940s. (U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Charles Welty)
The U.S. Air Force on December 1, 2020, the 65th anniversary of Parks’ 1955 protest, unveiled a sculpture of her at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, adding to an array of memorials that honor the civil rights icon, who died in 2005 at the age of 92.
This year ShareAmerica is highlighting some of the memorials honoring Parks’ brave protest.
Parks worked as a seamstress at Maxwell Field in the 1940s before her protest in Montgomery, Alabama, prompted a citywide bus boycott, a watershed event in the civil rights movement. She later credited her experience at the racially integrated federal facility with showing her a world without the discriminatory policies, known as Jim Crow laws, that were common in the South.