Continuing the Conversation is a public sculpture honoring Rosa Parks in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
The idea for a monument honoring Rosa Parks at Georgia Tech was first put forward by Atlanta sculptor Martin Dawe.
Dawe proposed the idea after noting that Parks died 50 years after her actions sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, with the artwork to be unveiled the day after the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.[1] Coincidentally, Dawe had recently completed a public art piece of King, a statue of him at the Georgia State Capitol.
[2] The cost of the project was $300,000 and was covered by donations from two Georgia Tech alumni.
[1] The sculptures of Parks were bronzed in Utah,[1] and the granite used the artwork came from Elberton, Georgia.