For a quiet act of defiance that resonated throughout the world, Rosa Parks is known and revered as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement." The documents shown here relating to Mrs. Parks's arrest are copies that were submitted as evidence in the Browder v. Gayle case. They are preserved by the National Archives at Atlanta in Morrow, Georgia William Pretzer was five years old when Rosa Parks of Montgomery, Alabama, was arrested. It was December 1, 1955. The 42-year-old seamstress was on a city bus, en route home after a day’s work Modified Document A: Police Report The police who arrested Rosa Parks filled out this official report about the arrest. Date 12-1-1955 Complainant: J.F. Blacke (white male) Address: 27 North Lewis Street Offense: Miscellaneous Date and Time Offense Committed: 12-1-55 6:06 pm Place of Occurrence: In Front of Empire Theatre (On Montgomery Street) The online tool for teaching with documents, from the National Archives Police Report on Arrest of Rosa Parks 1955. Print. Add to Favorites: ** FOR PRESS ONLY ** WHAT: The only opportunity for the media to see and photograph select original documents from Rosa Parks’ December 1, 1955 arrest. The National Archives will provide scanned images of the documents via CD-ROM. Diagram of the bus, showing where Rosa Parks was seated on December 1, 1955 Fingerprint chart of Rosa Parks, December 1, 1955 Police Report on the arrest of Rosa After her arrest, according to the documents, Parks appeared in court at Montgomery's City Hall on Dec. 5, 1955. The trial lasted only five minutes, where she was found guilty and required to pay On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This single act of nonviolent resistance sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, an eleven-month struggle to desegregate the city’s buses. An analysis of Rosa Parks' arrest records, based on a conversation with William Pretzer, senior curator for history at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and information conveyed in Parks' 1992 autobiography Rosa Parks: My Story. A court document filed after Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man on a bus is displayed at the archive of Alabama State University in Montgomery, Ala. (Alabama Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of an Act of Courage Washington, DC. . . The National Archives commemorates the 50th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," with a special exhibit of original documents which include a diagram of the bus showing where she was seated on December 1, 1955, a police report on her arrest, and her fingerprint chart. The Early Childhood Incidents and Experiences, ca. 1955-1958. Autograph manuscript. Rosa Parks Papers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. (Rosa Parks recounts the desertion of her father, James McCauley, and growing up in rural Pine Level, Alabama on the farm of maternal grandparents, Sylvester and Rosa Edwards, with her mother and brother, Leona and Sylvester McCauley.) 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. Showcases rarely seen materials that offer an intimate view of Rosa Parks and documents her life and activism—creating a rich opportunity for viewers to discover new dimensions to their understanding of this seminal figure. The materials are drawn extensively from the Rosa Parks Collection, a gift to the Library of Congress from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. A court document filed after Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man on a bus at the archive of Alabama State University in Montgomery, Alabama. (Image obtained Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested that day for violating a city law requiring racial segregation of public buses. On the city buses of Montgomery, Alabama, the front ten seats were permanently reserved for white passengers. The diagram on page 208 shows that Mrs. Parks was seated in the first row behind those ten seats. 1. How long before Rosa Parks’ arrest was this letter written? 2. Why do you think Robinson reminds the mayor that three-fourths of the bus riders in Montgomery are African American? What is her intention? Contextualizing 3. Given this document, agree or disagree with the following phrase, “Rosa Parks caused the Montgomery Bus Boycott.” Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Document B: Letter from Robinson to Mayor, (sourcing) How long before Rosa Parks' arrest was this letter written?, (sourcing) What was Robinson's purpose for writing to the mayor? and more. Reflect on the anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest with this collection of books that document the major moments in history which lead to and followed this major milestone in the Civil Rights movement. These terrifying tales are guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat with the turn of every page. "Lawyer for Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Montgomery bus boycott, the Tuskegee syphilis study, the desegregation of Alabama schools, and the Selma march." Documents Depicting the 1950s by Stephen H. Paschen (Editor, Compiled by); Leonard Schlup (Editor) 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
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