Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement: Quick Facts

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Rosa Parks stands as Deputy Sheriff D. H. Lackey fingerprints her at a desk, both looking down, in a black and white photo from 1955.

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