The dedication ceremony will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday and will include live performances of prayer songs by the cathedral’s men’s and boys’ choirs.
The carving commemorates Parks’s refusal in 1955 to give up her bus seat to a white man, sparking the modern civil rights movement. It will be displayed in the cathedral’s Human Rights Porch, an area that celebrates “those who struggle to bring equality and social justice to all people,” according to the church Web site.
Thursday’s dedication ceremony comes nearly seven years after Parks’s death in 2005, at the age of 92.
In the days and weeks that followed, the nation was reminded of her marked, albeit quiet, contribution to the civil rights movement.
