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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement, best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.
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 (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake, who ordered her to board at the rear door and then drove off without her. Parks ...
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by D.H. Lackey at Montgomery bus boycott, by the Associated Press (restored by Adam Cuerden) Aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake , by Chadwick, H. D (restored by Yann )
Edna May Griffin (1909 – February 8, 2000) was an American civil rights pioneer and human rights activist.Known as the "Rosa Parks of Iowa", her court battle against the Katz Drug Store in Des Moines in 1948, State of Iowa v.
Parks continued working for social justice throughout the course of her long life, authoring two memoirs, receiving two dozen honorary university doctorates, and winning both the Presidential ...
“She sparked the beginning of a movement that changed the very fabric of our nation,” said U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, […] The post CBC pushes for Rosa Parks to be the first woman to have ...
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 24 Sep 2019 at 10:20:01 (UTC). Original – Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey in February 1956 in Montgomery, Alabama after her arrest in December 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated public bus, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.