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RECORD DATE NOT STATED Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. Editorial use only. All other uses to be cleared with the copyright owner (World History Archive), in advance., WHA_034_0689.jpg, Rosa Parks; bus; Montgomery, Alabama; 1956; civil rights; African American; segregation; protest; activism; history; iconic; woman; sitting; brave; defiance; discrimination; public transportation; black history; United States; Southern United States; racial equality; social justice; equality; African American history; American history; Montgomery bus boycott; civil rights movement; iconic image; black woman; historical figure. Copyright: xx
February 26, 2024, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: Crowded bus terminal with White Waiting Room sign in foreground and Colored Waiting Room in background, Memphis, Tennessee, USA, Esther Bubley, U.S. Office of War Information, September 1943 Memphis USA - ZUMAg145 20240226_zap_g145_002 Copyright: xJTxVintagex
Colored waiting room in North Carolina, 1940 (b w photo) 3617856 Colored waiting room in North Carolina, 1940 (b w photo) by Delano, Jack (1914-97); Private Collection; (add.info.: At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States which continued to be enforced until 1965). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 3617856
DESEGREGATION: ALABAMA. African American anti-segregation activists, including Reverend Frederick Shuttlesworth, sit alongside white passengers on a bus in Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph, 1956. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0621849
MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT. An empty bus in Montgomery, Alabama, during a civil rights boycott. Photograph, 1956. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0371303
DESEGREGATION: BUSING, 1973. Black and white students from the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina, riding on a school bus to an inner city school, 21 February 1973. Photographed by Warren K. Leffler. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0264465
ROSA PARKS (1913-2005). American civil rights advocate. Sitting at the front of a public bus (formerly whites only ) in Montgomery, Alabama, on the day buses were integrated in the city. Seated behind her is reporter Nicholas C. Criss. Photograph, 21 December 1956. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0107383
December 17, 2021, Michigan, USA: In this Feb. 22, 1956, file photo, Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala. after she was arrested. . AP In this Feb. 22, 1956, file photo, Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala. after she was charged with violating segregation laws with dozens of other bus boycott protesters. Michigan USA - ZUMAf31_ 20211217_zaf_f31_004 Copyright: xGenexHerrickx
IMAGO History, U.S. BÃ¼rgerrechtsbewegung: 1954-1968 EV1893 - Mrs. Rosa Parks walking up the courthouse steps in Montgomery Alabama, 1956 Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx ZSDROPA EC001
The first Freedom Riders holding suitcases outside the office of Attorney S.W. Robinson. Richmond, Virginia on April 9, 1947. L-R: Worth Randle, Wally Nelson, Ernest Bromley, Jim Peck, Igal Roodenko, Bayard Rustin, Joe Felmet, George Houser, and Andy Jo For usage credit please use; PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL038 EC362
Legal retaliation for Montgomery Bus Boycott. Ninety bus boycott leaders gather outside the courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama, after arraignment for participation in the bus boycott. They were charged with violating a statue barring boycotts without just Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL033 EC787
Audience at the First Baptist Church of Montgomery, Alabama during a standing ovation for the leaders of the Montgomery Improvement Association in the early months of the year long bus boycott on February 23, 1956. Among the MIA leaders were Martin Luther Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL019 EC158
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking at a meeting of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization form after Rosa Parks was arrested for not moving to the back of the bus. Earlier, King, then, only 27 years old, was elected the organization Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL009 EC044
Martin Luther King and others take a seat in the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on Dec. 21, 1956, at the end of after a yearlong African American boycott. Also shown are Ralph D. Abernathy and Glenn Smiley. Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx HISL006 EC236
Dallas, Texas: Noble Bradford, A lead worker with Dallas Transit Company, takes down a segregation sign from the rear of one of the company s buses here. Following a supreme court ruling banning racial segregation on public transport vehicles with in the borders of a state, the company, complying with the court ruling, announced the passenger segregation on its 530 buses would end at once, while officials in other southern states vowed to do everything legally possible to keep the races apart. A spot check on some of the busiest transit company s routes showed that negos still rode in the back of the vehicles in the manner laid down for them prior to the court ruling being issued. 27 April 1956., Rassismus UnitedArchives01023604

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DESEGREGATION: ALABAMA. African American anti-segregation activists, including Reverend Frederick Shuttlesworth, sit alongside white passengers on a bus in Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph, 1956. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0621849

MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT. An empty bus in Montgomery, Alabama, during a civil rights boycott. Photograph, 1956. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0371303

DESEGREGATION: BUSING, 1973. Black and white students from the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina, riding on a school bus to an inner city school, 21 February 1973. Photographed by Warren K. Leffler. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0264465

IMAGO History, U.S. BÃ¼rgerrechtsbewegung: 1954-1968 EV1893 - Mrs. Rosa Parks walking up the courthouse steps in Montgomery Alabama, 1956 Courtesy Everett Collection PUBLICATIONXNOTxINxCANxCHNxFRAxITAxJPNxNORxPOLxRUSxESPxUKxUSA Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx ZSDROPA EC001