HIGHLIGHT: ALABAMA

Montgomery: Court Square was packed Sunday for the unveiling of a new statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. At least 400 people showed up for the unveiling of the statue at the downtown site where Parks got on the bus the day she was arrested, a key moment in the civil rights movement. The unveiling was part of several tributes to the day Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white man on a city bus on Dec. 1, 1955. Her arrest was one of the events that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott that challenged segregation on public buses.

MICKEY WELSH/USA TODAY NETWORK From left, Mary Louise Smith, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, civil rights lawyer Fred Gray and Mayor Steven Reed pose after the unveiling of a a statue of Rosa Parks in downtown Montgomery, Ala., on Sunday. The unveiling marked the 64th anniversary of when Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man.