Rosa Parks, Helen Keller to get statues at Alabama Capitol

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Rosa Parks and Helen Keller are soon to have statues on the grounds of the Alabama state capitol.

Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation Wednesday creating a Women’s Tribute Statue Commission to fund, commission and place the statues on the Capitol grounds.

Parks was arrested Dec. 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery city bus to a white passenger. Her arrest helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the civil rights movement.

Keller, who was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, was both deaf and blind and became a world-famous author and activist.

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This story has been corrected to show that Keller was born in Alabama and was both deaf and blind.