WASHINGTON- US Rep. George Miller (D- Contra Costa) issued the following statement upon attending the dedication of a statue of civil rights icon Rosa L. Parks in the U.S. Capitol today. According to the National Endowment of the Arts, the statue of Parks, who famously refused to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, AL on December 1, 1955, is the first full sized statue authorized and funded by Congress since 1873 and the first statue of an African American woman in the U.S.