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Summer 2012

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2005 NEWMEXICO COMPLETES STATUARY HALL COLLECTION Po'pay (1630?–?) was a Pueblo Indian who resisted Spanish pressure on his people. He connued to pracce his religion and was a healer; he was among those arrested for sorcery for these pracces. He then organized the 1680 Pueblo revolt, which drove away the Spaniards and ensured the survival of Pueblo culture. The addion of his statue to the collec- onmarked the first me that every state was represented by two statues. Po'pay by Cliff Fragua October 30, 2005 ROSA PARKS LIES IN HONOR IN THE CAPITOL ROTUNDA The arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger inMontgomery, Alabama in 1955 became a pivotalmoment in the American Civil RightsMovement. Following her death in October 2005, Congress voted to allow her body to lie in honor in the Capitol rotunda and later voted to add a statue of her to the National Statuary Hall Collection. ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

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