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United Press International [Portrait of Rosa Parks]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09778.04 Author/Creator: United Press International Place Written: Montgomery, Alabama Type: Photograph Date: 21 December 1956 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 25.3 x 20.3 cm. Order a Copy

One photograph of Rosa Parks dated December 21, 1956. Image has been edited to feature a closer portrait of Parks riding a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956 on the day that segregation in public transportation was banned.

Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005

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