Metro Rail Station Named for Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955 served as a lightning rod for the civil rights movement, was honored Friday in Watts as a Metro Rail station, the Imperial / Wilmington stop for the Blue and Green lines, was named in her honor. She was unable to attend because of illness.

“You can see what this means to the community,” county Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke told the hundreds of people who attended the dedication. “It gives these people a lot of pride because many of them are part of the same struggle.”