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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 Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the Congress of the United States dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day American Civil Rights Movement". Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey a bus driver's demand that she give up her seat to a white the rosa parks bus from 1955, on display at the 50th anniversary of the march on washington, august 24, 2013,washington, dc - picture of rosa parks stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images Find the perfect rosa parks stock photo, image, vector, illustration or 360 image. Available for both RF and RM licensing. This undated file photo shows Rosa Parks riding on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus. Her arrest in 1955 after refusing to give up her seat for a white man launched a boycott of the city's Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913. On December 1, 1955, she boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama and sat in the middle, where Black passengers in that city were allowed to sit unless a white person wanted the seat. As the bus filled with new riders, the driver told Parks to give up her seat to a white passenger. She refused. Sadly, we lost Ms. Parks back in 2005 — but much like her comrades Dr. Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman and Malcolm X, her legacy will continues to live on. Most of us know the story of Rosa Parks and that fateful day on the Alabama bus that changed her life and the lives of Black Americans forever. 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 Browse 44 civil rights pioneer rosa parks remembered photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. Books about civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks sit on display October 25, 2005 at The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. In the 1950s, Rosa Parks gave the US Civil Rights Movement a huge boost, and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. AP Photo/picture alliance. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who worked as a In this photo, Rosa Parks speaks at a press conference in Seattle the day before the NAACP meeting, held at the apartment of the treasurer of the Seattle branch NAACP. Notes: Handwritten on sleeve: Parks, Rosa, Mrs.; N.A.A.C.P. Caption information source: “Bus boycott figure relates story here,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 28, 1956, p. 8. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave. Description: English: Photograph Mrs. Rosa Parks altered the negro progress in Montgomery, Alabama, 1955, by the bus boycott she began. National Archives record May be an image of 1 person and text. May be an image of 6 people. No photo description available. At the front of a bus, previously reserved for white riders, is Rosa Parks, face turned to the window to her left, seemingly lost in thought as she rides through Montgomery, Ala. In the seat behind her is a young white man looking to his right, his face hard, almost expressionless. Purchase a framed print of the photograph "Rosa Parks Riding The Bus" by Bettmann. Choose from multiple print sizes and hundreds of frame and mat options. All framed prints are professionally printed, framed, assembled, and shipped within 3 - 4 business days and delivered ready-to-hang on your wall. Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama when, in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was tried and convicted of violating a local ordinance. Her act sparked a citywide boycott of the 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. Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the transformational Montgomery Bus Boycott. Historical Prints Express Rosa Parks on The Bus, 15" x 15" - B&W Photo Art Print Historical Prints Express Columbo Homicide Detective, 10" x 8" - B&W Photo Art Print Historical Prints Express Woodstock Music Festival 1969, 22" x 15" - B&W Photo Art Print
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