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Two months in, Rosa Parks was arrested once again for her participation—and the above photo of prisoner number 7053 was snapped. Finally, on December 20, 1956, after sustaining the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama laws requiring segregated buses were unconstitutional which led to the integration of public Montgomery, Alabama, police photo (mug shot) of Rosa Parks, February 21, 1956. (Alabama Department of Archives and History) On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated public bus to a white man. Her cause was quickly adopted by the Montgomery chapter of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP Prisoner 7053 Published Oct Rosa Parks, who died Monday, was the right person at the right time and the right place. She deserved all the honor and glory that came her way. But it is also too Mug shot No. 7053. The Rosa Parks fable also erases the tremendous cost of her bus stand and the decade of suffering that ensued for the Parks family. They weren’t well-off. The Parkses lived in Rosa Parks, #7053 Creator: Montgomery County (Ala.). Sheriff's Dept. Date of Original: 1956-02-21 Subject: African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956 In another book for black women, Rosa Parks also holds a slate with her arrest number, 7053, and gazes at the camera in a manner suggesting she had been booked before. It was her arrest nearly Prisoner number 7053.This is the booking photo of Rosa Parks taken on December 1, 1955, the day she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks was charged with violating chapter 6, section 11 of the Montgomery City Code: refusing to give up her city bus seat to a white person. As a show of power and support, many boycott organizers, including Parks and Nixon, chose to turn themselves in. Parks was photographed and fingerprinted; indeed the iconic photo of her being fingerprinted and her mugshot #7053 date from this arrest (though they are regularly mis-attributed to her first arrest). Scanned image from one of the mug shot volumnes showing Rosa Parks and other African American women arrested on February 21, 1956 for their leadership in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The books of mug shots were divided by race and gender.The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of For them, Rosa Parks was the perfect representation: married, employed, religious, and attractive. She carried herself respectfully and could handle the media when necessary. Mug shot No. 7053 is one of the most iconic images of Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave. Mug shot No. 7053 is one of the most iconic images of Rosa Parks. But the photo, often seen in museums and textbooks and on T-shirts and websites, isn’t what it seems. Rosa Parks, #7053 Creator: Montgomery County (Ala.). Sheriff's Dept. Date of Original: 1956-02-21 Subject: African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956 »ROSA PARKS 7053, Peinture à « Je voudrais que l’on se souvienne de moi comme d’une personne qui voulait être libre, pour que les autres le deviennent aussi. »ROSA PARKS 7053, Peinture Rosa Parks, #7053 Creator: Montgomery County (Ala.). Sheriff's Dept. Date of Original: 1956-02-21 Collection: Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement Contributing Institution: Montgomery County (Ala.). Archives Montgomery county booking no. 7053: Rosa Parks Mug shot of Rosa Parks, Montgomery, Alabama, February 1956. Parks's arrest was related to protest activity that occurred after her famous refusal on December 1, 1955, to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated Montgomery bus. (more) The folk and lore of Rosa Parks does little to complete the picture of the dynamic, skilled and purposeful Civil Rights activist that she was. Rosa Parks, #7053 Creator: Montgomery County (Ala.). Sheriff's Dept. Date of Original: 1956-02-21 Collection: Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement Contributing Institution: Montgomery County (Ala.). Archives Montgomery, Alabama. That’s the date that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man, and thereby emerged as symbol for standing up for equality. She held up the number 7053 in her mugshot, which instantaneously became an iconic image. The fight to do what’s right should never go by the wayside. Two days are dedicated to Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005), the "first lady of civil rights" and "mother of the freedom movement" who would have turned 100 in 2013: her birthday in February and the day of her arrest on 1 December 1955.
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