President Barack Obama flanked by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (left) and House Speaker John Boehner applaud during the unveiling of a statue of Rosa Parks at the United States Capitol in Washington, DC. HERE: Sen. Mary Landrieu narrates a video on Rosa Parks as her statue is unveiled.

MSX International employees work in Sept. 2002 on the restoration of the historic Montgomery, Alabama, bus No. 2857, on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955. | J. KYLE KEENER/MCT

In this photo from the National Archives, Edith Lee Payne, of Detroit, was pictured on her 12th birthday at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. She had no idea she had been photographed, let alone that over the years her face had become so well known. | U.S. National Archives/MCT