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National Portrait Gallery's Bust of Rosa Parks
In March 1991 a large bronze bust of Rosa Parks, created by sculptor Artis Lane, was unveiled and presented to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., as a gift of the Anheuser-Busch Companies. During the unveiling ceremony, Mayor Sharon Pratt Dixon presented Rosa with the key to the city, and Cicely Tyson recited a Maya Angelou poem. Coretta Scott King, Dorothy Height, Joseph Lowery, and several members of Congress including John Conyers (D-MI), John Lewis (D-GA), and Gus Savage (D-IL) also attended. |