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In this iconic photo, Parks waited to board a bus at the end of the boycott on Dec. 26, 1956, with the modern Civil Rights Movement just beginning. Parks died in 2005 after a lifetime of fighting American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks waits to board a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956. Rosa Parks Boards A Bus American civil rights leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr wearing a 7089 sign across his chest for a mug shot at a police station house in Montgomery 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. American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks waits to board a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956. Rosa Parks Boards A Bus American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks , being fingerprinted after her refusal to move to the back of a bus to accommodate a white passenger An undated photo shows Rosa Parks riding on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus. Parks? refusal to give up her seat on Dec. 1, 1955, ignited a bus boycott. Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions ROSA PARKS (1913-2005) American civil rights activist is fingerprinted by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey on 22 February 1956 after a Grand Jury indicted 113 African Americans for organising a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. 1 photograph : print ; sheet 24 x 21 cm. Photo, Print, Drawing [Rosa Parks seated in the front of a public bus, likely a staged photograph representing the end of segregated buses and her role in the Montgomery bus boycott from 1955 to1956] 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 Sixty years ago, Rosa Parks' quiet and determined refusal to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. to a white man sparked the beginning of The Montgomery Bus Boycott on Dec. 5, 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycotts lasted from December 5,1955, to December 26, 1956, and brought civil rights leaders like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. to the fore. American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks waits to board a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956. Rosa Parks Boards A Bus American Religious and Civil Rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr director of segregated bus boycott, brimming with enthusiasm as he outlines Rosa Parks' Bus . In 1955, African Americans were still required by a Montgomery, Alabama, city ordinance to sit in the back half of city buses and to yield their seats to white riders if the “During the Montgomery bus boycott, we came together and remained unified for 381 days. It has never been done again. The Montgomery boycott became the model for human rights throughout the world.” When Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, she was mentally prepared for the moment. Rosa Parks, left, and Martin Luther King Jr., second from left, presented this couple with an award at a 1965 ceremonyImage: AP Photo/picture alliance On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who worked Rosa Parks: Well, the first meeting was not at the Baptist Church. The first meeting we had was at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Dr. Martin Luther King's church where he was pastoring. That was — on Friday evening. INTERVIEWER: I'M TALKING ABOUT THE BIG MEETING AT THE — Rosa Parks: Oh, the big meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church. Rosa Parks, left, and Martin Luther King Jr., second from left, presented this couple with an award at a 1965 ceremonyImage: AP Photo/picture alliance. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who worked Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the transformational Montgomery Bus Boycott. 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. American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks rides a bus at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Alabama, December 26, 1956. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images
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