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Seating arrangements Mrs. Rosa Parks, 43, woman whose arrest on December 1st, 1955, touched off a year-long bus boycott by the Negro community here, gazes out of the window from a seat far forward in the bus she boarded here December 21st, as the boycott came to an end. Mrs. Parks was arrested originally when she sat in bus forward of white passengers.
Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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Spatial Coverage | Alabama--Montgomery |
Description | 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. Parks later told her biographer Brinkley that she had been reluctant to pose but agreed because the civil rights community members also wanted a photo to represent the moment of change. |
File Format | JPG / JPEG |
Language | English |
Part of Series | Miscellaneous Items in High Demand |
Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
Access Restriction | Open |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Parks, Rosa,--1913-2005--Political activity--Alabama--Montgomery. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Bus travel--Alabama--Montgomery--1950-1960. |
Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery--1950-1960. |
Content Type | Image |
Resource Type | Photograph |