Memorable: photos from the Ebony files
Ebony, March, 2005
> ROSA PARKS, often called "the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," was fingerprinted on December 1, 1955, by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after she refused to give up her seat to a White man on a Montgomery, Ala., bus. Her arrest sparked the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott, the most extraordinary and sustained protest movement by African-Americans, which lasted until a court struck down segration.
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