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Photographer: Public domain (AP)
Taken: February 22, 1956
Caption: Rosa Parks being fingerprinted.
Additional Description: Rosa Parks being fingerprinted on February 22, 1956, by Lieutenant D.H. Lackey as one of the people indicted as leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott. She was one of 73 people rounded up by deputies that day after a grand jury charged 113 African Americans for organizing the boycott. This was a few months after her arrest on December 1, 1955, for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated municipal bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Submitted: March 28, 2022, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p645400
File Size: 0.534 Megabytes

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