Rosa Parks
American civil rights activist Rosa Parks smiling after a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation on city public transit vehicles took effect. Parks' arrest on December 1st, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white person led to the successful 381 day Montgomery bus boycott.

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Credit:
Editorial #:
515351638
Collection:
Bettmann
Date created:
December 21, 1956
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Source:
Bettmann
Object name:
U1120874C
Max file size:
2855 x 2988 px (9.52 x 9.96 in) - 300 dpi - 3 MB
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