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. 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. 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 Born 109 Years Ago Today: Relive the Civil Rights Activist's Inspiring Moments On Dec. 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to move to the back of 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 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. 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) 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. 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 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. 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. Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, in the U.S. state of 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 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, 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 Two iconic pictures of Parks being fingerprinted (seen here) and of her mugshot are not from this arrest, but rather from her arrest in February 1956 during boycott when she was arrested along with other boycott organizers for their role in the boycott. But they are regularly mis-attributed to this arrest. Rosa Parks has been honored with a statue at the US Capitol in Washington Image: J. Scott Applewhite/AP/picture alliance The decision not to give up her seat on the bus was a logical consequence. Rosa Parks Is Fingerprinted by PolicePhotograph By: Gene HerrickDate: 1956Source: AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission.About the Photographer: Gene Herrick was a staff photographer for the Associated Press, a worldwide news agency based in New York. 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 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. 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
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