LAFAYETTE, La. — Community members gathered at the Rosa Parks Transportation Center today to commemorate the civil rights icon whose courageous act of defiance helped reshape the fight for racial justice in America.

"Keep fighting. No matter what, no matter how, keep it in the back of your mind that this is necessary," said Porsha Evans.

Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist whose arrest helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott, protests focused on the injustice of racial segregation in Alabama's public transit system.

"Rosa did not take a seat and choose to get out of her seat because she was physically tired. It was about her being tired of injustice," Lafayette City Councilman Kenneth Boudreaux said during the ceremony.

Evans said she remembers those dark times well.

"These were ti

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