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 The man fingerprinting Parks was Officer Drue Lackey, who would later serve as the police chief for the Montgomery Police Department, retiring in 1970. He died in 2016. His views on the Civil Rights Movement were largely unchanged throughout his life. “People need to know the police officer’s side of the Civil Rights Movement 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. 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. The man sitting behind her as been identified as Nicholas C. Chriss, a reporter for United Press International. Mrs. 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 Is Fingerprinted by Police. Photograph. By: Gene Herrick Date: 1956 Source: AP/Wide World Photos. Reproduced by permission. About the Photographer: Gene Herrick was a staff photographer for the Associated Press, a worldwide news agency based in New York. 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. 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. People Two months in, Rosa Parks was arrested once again for her participation—and the above photo of prisoner number 7053 was snapped. Finally, on December 20, 1956, after sustaining the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama laws requiring segregated buses were unconstitutional which led to the integration of public An undated photo shows Rosa Parks riding on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus. Parks? refusal to give up her seat on Dec. 1, 1955, ignited a bus boycott. is fingerprinted by police Lt. D 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, left, and Martin Luther King Jr., second from left, presented this couple with an award at a 1965 ceremonyImage: AP Photo/picture alliance On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, who worked 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 02/03/2025 February 3, 2025. She stood up for her rights by staying seated. In the 1950s, Rosa Parks gave the US Civil Rights Movement a huge boost, and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. A booking photo of Rosa Parks taken on Feb. 22, 1956, at the county sheriff’s office in Montgomery, and police brutality. With a small group of other activists, including E.D. Nixon, who Based on a conversation with Pretzer and information conveyed in Parks’ 1992 autobiography Rosa Parks: My Story, I have annotated Parks’ police report, fingerprint card and a diagram of the 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. Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her seat touched off the Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement, is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala Rosa Parks. Photo: Encyclopedia Britannica. Since the day she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a White man in 1955, Rosa Parks has been an icon of the post-war Civil Rights Movement. The famous photograph showing her seated on a bus has been enthusiastically referenced by liberals, conservatives, and corporations alike as representing a 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 white
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