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2,705 Rosa Parks Photos & High-Res Pictures Browse 2,705 authentic rosa parks photos, pictures, and images, or explore civil rights or martin luther king to find the right picture. Showing Editorial results for rosa parks. A statue of civil rights activist Rosa Parks stands in National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol after being unveiled February 27, 2013 in Washington, DC. Rosa Parks, whose arrest in 1955 for refusing to yield her seat on a segregated bus to a white passenger helped ignite the modern American civil rights movement. Rosa Parks became one of the major symbols of the civil rights movement when she refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955. View photos of life and legacy. 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. performance artist portraying rosa parks - images of rosa parks stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images Performance Artist Portraying Rosa Parks Visitors holds a photo of the late Rosa Parks at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History October 31, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Deputy Sherriff Lackey in Montgomery on February 22 in 1956 two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. In pictures: Rosa Parks' life It was on this US bus in 1955 that 42-year-old black woman Rosa Parks politely refused to give up her seat to a white man, an act which was against the law Her protest sparked black people to boycott buses for 381 days, led by a little-known Baptist minister at that time - Rev Martin Luther King. The archive includes 7,500 manuscripts and 2,500 photos spanning 140 years, documenting both her personal life and her experiences in activism. Representative John Conyers and Rosa Parks On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks committed her most famous act of resistance. She refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus for a white passenger. Browse 90 rosa parks portrait photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. American Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks poses as she works as a seamstress, shortly after the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott, Montgomery, Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. A booking photo of Rosa Parks taken on Feb. 22, 1956, at the county sheriff’s office in Montgomery, Ala. Credit Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, via Associated Press 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 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. 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. Montgomery Bus Boycotts lasted from December 5,1955, to December 26, 1956, and brought civil rights leaders like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. to the fore. 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 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 The photo is on posters on buses in New York City. In the Denver area, RTD buses are marking the anniversary of Parks’ refusal with placards, but they don’t carry the 1950s image. FULL NAME: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks BORN: February 4, 1913 DIED: October 24, 2005 BIRTHPLACE: Tuskegee, Alabama SPOUSE: Raymond Parks (1932-1977) ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aquarius Childhood, Family
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