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2,705 Rosa Parks Photos & High-Res Pictures Browse 2,705 authentic rosa parks photos, pictures, and images, or explore civil rights or martin luther king to find the right picture. Showing Editorial results for rosa parks. Find Rosa Parks stock images in HD and millions of other royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vectors in the Shutterstock collection. Thousands of new, high-quality pictures added every day. performance artist portraying rosa parks - images of rosa parks stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images Performance Artist Portraying Rosa Parks Visitors holds a photo of the late Rosa Parks at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History October 31, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. 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 Rosa Parks became one of the major symbols of the civil rights movement when she refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955. View photos of life and legacy. Rosa parks Stock Photos and Images. Rosa Parks (1913-2005). Rosa Louise McCauley Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest for the boycott of public transportation Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the Congress of the United States dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day American Civil Rights Movement". Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey a bus driver's demand that she give up her seat to a white Rosa Parks Collection Items Housed in the Prints and Photographs Division. The Library of Congress does not own rights to material in its collections. Therefore, it does not license or charge permission fees for use of such material and cannot grant or deny permission to publish or otherwise distribute the material. Rosa Parks AP Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Dep. Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1 Sadly, we lost Ms. Parks back in 2005 — but much like her comrades Dr. Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, her legacy will continues to live on. Most of us know the story of Rosa Parks and that fateful day on the Alabama bus that changed her life and the lives of Black Americans forever. 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 (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 was born on February 4, 1913. On December 1, 1955, she boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama and sat in the middle, where Black passengers in that city were allowed to sit unless a white person wanted the seat. As the bus filled with new riders, the driver told Parks to give up her seat to a white passenger. She refused. the rosa parks bus from 1955, on display at the 50th anniversary of the march on washington, august 24, 2013,washington, dc - rosa parks bus stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1955 to 2000. The collection, which contains approximately 7,500 items in the Manuscript Division, as well as 2,500 photographs in the Prints and Photographs Division, documents many aspects of Parks's private life and public activism on behalf of civil rights for African Americans. Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama when, in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was tried and convicted of violating a local ordinance. Her act sparked a citywide boycott of the Called "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. When she was arrested in December 1955, her act of civil disobedience sparked the year-long Mongomery bus boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Across the city, African Americans refused to ride the public buses. 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. Called "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. When she was arrested in December 1955, her act of civil disobedience sparked the year-long Mongomery bus boycott led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Across the city, African Americans refused to ride the public buses. 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
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