Summary: Photo shows Mrs. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, on Feb. 22, 1956, when she and others were arrested for boycotting. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-38651 (digital file from original photo) LC-USZ62-109643 (b&w film copy neg.) Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest for disorderly conduct in Montgomery in February 1956. Parks and several other city residents were arrested for their participation in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a key early campaign of the civil rights movement. Woman fingerprinted. Mrs. Rosa Parks, Negro seamstress, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus touched off the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Summary Photo shows Mrs. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, on Feb. 22, 1956, when she and others were arrested for boycotting. 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. There were about 50,000 African Americans in the city, and they made English: Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott.She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. 1 photograph : b&w print ; sheet 20 x 26 cm. Photo, Print, Drawing [Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested for boycotting public transportation, Montgomery, Alabama, February, 1956] Parks was secretary of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP, and just months before her arrest had attended the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, a training center for labor and civil rights leadership. This photograph was made at the time of Parks’s second arrest, and was widely reproduced in newspapers and magazines. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey, Montgomery, Alabama, February 22, 1956 Public domain image Revered as one of the most influential people of the twentieth century, Rosa Parks is best known for her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 . The fingerprint card of Rosa Parks was produced in association with her arrest for refusing to obey orders of a bus driver on December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Creator U.S. District Court for the Northern (Montgomery) Division of the Middle District of Alabama. 3/7/1908 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. When she courageously refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks secured her place in history. Her arrest ignited a mass boycott of city buses and brought the civil rights movement to national prominence. When she courageously refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks secured her place in history. Her arrest ignited a mass boycott of city buses and brought the civil rights movement to national prominence. English: Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott.She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. English: Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott.She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. Rosa Parks Rosa Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama, December 1, 1955. (more) On December 1, 1955, Parks was riding a crowded Montgomery city bus when the driver, upon noticing that there were white passengers standing in the aisle, asked Parks and other Black passengers to surrender their seats and stand. [Portrait of Rosa Parks giving fingerprints at police station] | | One photograph of Rosa Parks dated February 22, 1956. Image is of Parks at police station being fingerprinted by Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks was not a named plaintiff on that case. Gray didn’t want Parks’ state case to be a reason this new case would get thrown out, and Parks’ long history with the NAACP was risky. In the wake of the Brown decision, the organization was being red-baited and would be outlawed in Alabama in June 1956. In 1956, Herrick photographed Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. That same year, Herrick captured an image of King smiling while English: Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott.She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after arrest in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956 (Wikimedia Commons)In 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality.By then, she had left Alabama in poverty and ill health — both brought on by the severe repercussions she faced following her 1955 bus stance — and had been living in Detroit for eight years.
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