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Summary: Photograph shows Rosa Parks seated on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, with a white man seated behind her. The photo was taken at the request of news reporters who asked her to pose on a bus on the day that the bus boycott ended. 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, a 42-year-old seamstress named Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, even after the white bus driver Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955. She was Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955. She was Find the perfect rosa parks arrest stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. Available for both RF and RM licensing. 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. 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. In Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Her action set off a full-scale, nationwide assault on Jim Crow segregation laws. No segregation law angered African Americans in Montgomery more than bus segregation. 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. 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. At about the same time, an African American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested in Alabama, sparking a protest campaign that would go down in history as the Montgomery bus boycott — another key 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. In her autobiography, Rosa Parks: My Story (1992), Parks declares her defiance was an intentional act: "I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was 42. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." The police arrested Parks at the scene and charged her with violation of Chapter 6, Section 11, of the Montgomery City Code. The Rosa Parks Story, was released in 2002. The movie won the 2003 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 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.) 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
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