Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks has her own statue in the Capital's Statuary Hall. She is the first African American woman to be honored with a full-length statue.

Rosa Parks made history in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. The law at the time stated that black people had to sit in the back of the bus and allow white people the front.

Parks was on her way home from work that evening, she was tired and ready to go home. The bus driver tried to force Parks to give up her seat and she was later arrested for saying no.

President Obama gave a speech at the ceremony unveiling the Park's statue.

""Rosa Parks tells us there's always something we can do, She tells us that we all have responsibilities, to ourselves and to one another... that "singular act of disobedience launched a movement" that lasts to this day."

"This morning, we celebrate a seamstress -- slight in stature but mighty in courage," Obama said "She defied the odds, and she defied injustice."

The bus that Rosa Parks was arrest on sits in the Henry Ford museum outside Detroit, people can visit and sit on the bus and get a sense of what happened on December 5, 1955.

The statute shows Rosa Parks in a seated position, holding her purse, an image that has become a symbol of the Civil Rights movement.

House Speaker John Boehner was also at the ceremony, "Here in the hall, she casts an unlikely silhouette - unassuming in a lineup of proud stares, challenging all of us once more to look up and to draw strength from stillness."

Rosa Parks and her husband had no children, but 50 members of the Park's family including nieces and nephews traveled to Washington to honor their famous relative.

Rosa Parks died in 2005; February 4, 2013 would have been her 100^th birthday.