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Browse 99 rosa parks arrest photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. Booking photo of American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycott. On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Relive her activism in photos Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery 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 Title: Seating arrangements Mrs. Rosa Parks, 43, woman whose arrest on December 1st, 1955, touched off a year-long bus boycott by the Negro community here, gazes out of the window from a seat far forward in the bus she boarded here December 21st, as the boycott came to an end. Mrs. Parks was arrested originally when she sat in bus forward of white passengers. The following 21 pages use this file: User talk:Adam Cuerden/Archive 4; Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested for refusing to give up her seat for a white passenger on a segregated municipal bus in Montgomery, Alabama.jpg Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005), American Civil Rights activist. Booking photo taken at the time of her arrest for refusing to give upe her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white passenger on 1 December 1955. Rosa Parks Mug Shot 1955. Arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images A booking photo of American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott was originally sparked by her earlier arrest on 1st December 1955 when she had refused to give up her seat to a white person. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images) This mug shot of Rosa Parks was taken when she was arrested in February 1956 for protesting during the Montgomery bus boycott. The image was discovered in 2004 when a Montgomery County chief deputy found it in storage. December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Is Arrested On Thursday, December 1, 1955, the 42-year-old Rosa Parks was commuting home from a long day of work at the Montgomery Fair department store by bus. Nine months before Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested in Montgomery for the same act. The city's Black leaders prepared to protest Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks was arrested on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama after she refused to give her seat to a white passenger. Her arrest sparked the 381-day boycott of Montgomery Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955. However the photograph of her getting fingerprinted that has been widely circulated actually took place in 1956, when she was arrested a second time – one month into the Montgomery bus boycott that her first arrest ignited. April 14, 2005: Parks and the hip-hop group Outkast reach an out-of-court settlement regarding their 1998 song "Rosa Parks." October 24, 2005: Parks dies at the age of 92 Rosa Parks Arrested. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for disorderly conduct for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Civil Rights leader E. D. Nixon bailed her out of jail, joined by white friends Clifford Durr, an attorney, and his wife, Virginia. Rosa Parks , accompanied by her attorney, Charles D. Langford , and an unidentified deputy, is on her way to jail- arrested on charges of violating city segregation laws which precipitated a citywide Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images American civil rights activist Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, after the Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city bus system on December 21st, 1956; the man sitting behind Parks is Nicholas C Chriss, a reporter for United Press International out of Atlanta. On December 1, 1955, during a typical evening rush hour in Montgomery, Alabama, a 42-year-old woman took a seat on the bus on her way home from the Montgomery Fair department store where she worked as a seamstress. Before she reached her destination, she quietly set off a social revolution when the bus driver instructed her to move back, and she refused. Rosa Parks, an African American, was Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States.
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