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File:Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott - Original.jpg - Original (JPEG) This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons ( Featured pictures ) and is considered one of the finest images.
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after her arrest for boycotting public transportation. Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP.
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.
60 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her bus seat to a white man in Alabama, knowingly violating her city's racial segregation laws.
The post CBC pushes for Rosa Parks to be the first woman to have federal holiday appeared first on TheGrio. ... Dec. 1, will be the 68th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest in Montgomery, Alabama ...
Parks, after being arrested, was fined $10 plus $4 in court fees (a total of $161.11 as of 12 Mar 2024). [8] Later, Blake contacted the police and signed the warrant for her arrest (Chapter 6, Section 11, of the city code gave drivers police powers for the racial assignment of seats.) [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The arrest sparked the Montgomery bus boycott ...
More: 65 years ago, Rosa Parks' arrest ignited the civil rights movement and led to yearlong Montgomery Bus Boycott. I think of Dr. Amy Acton. Faced with angry Ohioans threatening her in the heat ...
On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move from her seat in the black area of the bus she was traveling on to make way for a white passenger who was standing. [4]: 27 Parks, a civil rights organizer, had intended to instigate a reaction from white citizens and authorities. That night, with Parks' permission ...