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Associated Press [Portrait of Rosa Parks giving fingerprints at police station]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09778.07 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Montgomery, Alabama Type: Photograph Date: 22 February 1956 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 20.4 x 25.4 cm. Order a Copy

One photograph of Rosa Parks dated February 22, 1956. Image is of Parks at police station being fingerprinted by Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama.

Image caption originally printed by Associated Press was "Woman fingerprinted. Mrs. Rosa Parks, Negro seamstress, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus touched off the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala."

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

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