Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city’s bus system. Behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a UPI reporter covering the event.
Source: Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection
Rosa Parks’ booking photo upon being arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.
A young man and his dog. Photograph by Paul Schutzer. Montgomery, Alabama, USA, 1961.
Young African-American couples dancing. Photograph by Paul Schutzer. Montgomery, Alabama, USA, 1961.
African-American students in class at George Washington Carver High School. Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White. Montgomery, Alabama, USA, September 1949.
Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. Montgomery, Alabama, USA, 1914.
