December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Photograph of Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King jr. (ca. 1955)
National Archives record ID: 306-PSD-65-1882 (Box 93). National Archives and Records Administration Records of the U.S. Information Agency Record Group 306.
This work was obtained from the now defunct United States Information Agency. In 1999 the agency was merged into the Bureau of Public Affairs which is part of the United States Department of State. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of 17 U.S.C. § 105.
Rosa Parks and MLK Photo
Exact spot on Dexter Avenue where Rosa Parks waited for the bus that changed history. Montgomery, Alabama.
Rosa Parks on December 1, 1955, refused to go to the back of the bus. She was arrested and it was the beginning of the bus strikes that caused the laws to be changed for all African Americans in the United States.
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Carol M. Highsmith, 1946-, photographer.
Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Rosa Parks Bus Stop Photo
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