''Rosa Parks'' is a 2013

bronze sculpture Bronze is the most popular metal for Casting (metalworking), cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply "a bronze". It can be used for statues, singly or in groups, reliefs, and small statuettes and figurines, as w ...

depicting the African-American civil rights activist of the same name, installed in the

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National Statuary Hall The National Statuary Hall is a chamber in the United States Capitol devoted to sculptures of prominent Americans. The hall, also known as the Old Hall of the House, is a large, two-story, semicircular room with a second story gallery along th ...

, as part of the collection of the

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. The statue was sculpted by Eugene Daub and co-designed by Rob Firmin. It is the only statue in the Hall not linked with a state, and the first full-length statue of an African American in the Capitol.

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