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[Portrait photographs of Rosa Parks] [Decimalized .01-.07]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09778 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Header Record Date: 1956-1995 Pagination: 7 photographs Order a Copy

Collection of seven photographs of activist, Rosa Parks dates range from 1956-1955. Includes Parks speaking at events in the 1990s, press photographs of Parks aboard a bus on Montgomery, Alabam in 1956 prior to her arrest, and Parks in the sheriff's office where D.H. Lackey took her fingerprints.

Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005) was an American activist during the civil rights movement, prominently involved with the Montgomery bus boycott.

Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
Lackey, D.H., 1926-2016

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