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. A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriff’s Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken Feb 22, 1956, after she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 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. In this iconic photo, Parks waited to board a bus at the end of the boycott on Dec. 26, 1956, with the modern Civil Rights Movement just beginning. Parks died in 2005 after a lifetime of On Dec. 21, 1956, a day after the Montgomery bus boycott ended, Rosa Parks boarded a bus and sat in what was once the white section to take this photograph. While the photo has been widely shared, few know that the white man sitting behind her is not a commuter, but a journalist. American Civil Rights activist Rosa Louise McCauley Parks pictured in her booking photo taken at the time of her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a This is the booking photo of Rosa Parks taken on December 1, 1955, the day she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks was charged with violating chapter 6, section 11 of the Montgomery City Code: refusing to give up her city bus seat to a white person. Rosa Parks' Montgomery, Ala. Sheriff's Department booking photo taken on Feb. 22, 1956. Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955 in A booking photo of Rosa Parks taken on Feb. 22, 1956, at the county sheriff’s office in Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, via Associated Press. In the iconic booking photograph of Rosa Parks shown above, taken February 21, 1956, she is recorded as prisoner “7053” after being arrested for protesting during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The “7053” image was discovered in 2004 when a Montgomery County chief deputy found it in storage. 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. Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was photographed by Alabama cops following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycotts. The booking photo, taken when Parks was 43, was discovered 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 Rosa Parks Arrested. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for disorderly conduct for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Civil Rights leader E. D. Nixon bailed her out of jail, joined by white friends Clifford Durr, an attorney, and his wife, Virginia. 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. A Montgomery Sheriff's Department booking photo of Rosa Parks. AP. Rosa Parks is seen in Montgomery, Ala. on December 1, 1995. An undated photo shows Rosa Parks riding on the Montgomery Area Rosa Parks - 1955 - Booking - Photo - Mugshot - Photograph - Print Vintage Rosa Parks 1956 Civil Rights Photo Montgomery Alabama Black Lives Matter Poster Booking photo of American civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycott. The boycott was Civil rights leader Rosa Parks waits to receive the Congressional Gold Medal in Statuary Hall in the Capitol Building, Washington, DC, June 14, 1999. 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 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.
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