One of the meeting points in downtown is a small park about a block from the river. It's considered the heart of the city, according to an official web site. The area used to be called Grab Corners and Campau Square. But now, it's Rosa Parks Circle.
Parks, you remember, is one of the heroes of the civil rights movement. She refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. That led to her arrest and a long bus boycott that eventually changed public policy in that area.
Someone made an interesting decision to have Parks standing in this piece of sculpture. After all, she made a statement by sitting. It's been suggested that Parks is shown to be standing up for her civil rights, which is as good an explanation as any.
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