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A version of this article appears in print on , Section SR, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Rosa Parks’s Real Story. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe Read 197 Comments 1956: Rosa Parks, center, outside the courthouse in Montgomery, Ala., where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was being tried on charges of leading “an illegal boycott” of Montgomery’s buses. A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Who Rosa Parks Was, Not Just What She Meant. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe The caption on this photo, from the front page of the Feb. 23, 1956, New York Times reads: Mrs. Rosa Parks, seamstress, being fingerprinted yesterday in Montgomery, Ala. Her arrest last December for refusing to move to the rear of the bus led to the Negro boycott of segregated city bus lines, for which she and 114 other persons have been indicted. Sixty years ago, on Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks made history by refusing to sit in the segregated area of a bus in Montgomery, Ala. A few months later, Robert S. Bird, writing in The New York Herald Tribune, recalled how her arrest led to the Montgomery bus boycott: The bus boycott began Dec. 5. Learn about Rosa Parks’s role in the civil rights movement reading and discussing the article, “Rosa Parks, 92, Founding Symbol of Civil Rights Movement, Dies.” 3. Research and profile key figures in the civil rights movement, from 1955 to 1968, on commemorative posters. The New York Times reporting focused on examples of publishers changing material in an effort to satisfy this law. With respect to Rosa Parks, the Times analyzed three versions of the lessons A New York Times article memorialized her as “the accidental matriarch of the civil rights movement,” and almost all of the tributes and speeches focused on that “singular event” in Montgomery, Alabama December 1955 when Rosa Parks would not give up her bus seat to a white man. [4] The New York Times compared three versions of the company’s Rosa Parks story, meant for first graders: a current lesson used now in Florida, an initial version created for the state textbook News about Rosa Parks. Commentary and archival information about Rosa Parks from The New York Times. Rosa Parks, black woman whose refusal to relinquish her seat to white man on city bus in Montgomery, Ala, 50 years ago sparked civil rights movement of 1950's and 1960's, dies at age 92; events The New York Times Archives. The bus boycott began Dec. 6, 20 years ago, when blacks objected to the arrest of Rosa Parks after she refused to give her seat on a bus to a white man. Man sitting behind Rosa Parks in famous bus photo is identified as United Press International reporter covering event, not some angry Alabama segregationist as has long been supposed; Catherine In her life, Rosa Parks was a civil rights symbol. In her death she has become a marketing phenomenon. Fabrizio Costantini for The New York Times (images with bus) By Jeremy W. Peters and On the verge of the 100th anniversary of her birth this Monday comes a fascinating new book, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” by Jeanne Theoharis, a Brooklyn College professor. Stephen Crowley/The New York Times Urana McCauley, Mrs. Parks’s niece, sat crying through the hourlong program. At 42, she is the same age that her aunt was when she was arrested. The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from September 1, One of the television reports said something about Rosa Parks becoming a victim of the times. The subject The New York Times Archives. Rosa L. Parks, whose defiance of segregation in 1955 led to the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala., and helped touch off the black civil rights movement, was robbed The New York Times compared three versions of the company’s Rosa Parks story, meant for first graders: a current lesson used now in Florida, an initial version created for the state textbook Before he defended Rosa Parks and became a leading legal force, Fred Gray grew up on an avenue named for Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Ala. A New York Times analysis shows new maps drawn in
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