Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
Biography:
Parks (née Rosa Louise McCauley) was an African American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama. In 1957 Parks moved with her husband and mother to Detroit, where from 1965 to 1988 she was a member of the staff of Michigan Congressman John Conyers, Jr. She remained active in the NAACP, and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference established the annual Rosa Parks Freedom Award in her honor. In 1987 she cofounded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development to provide career training for young people. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1996) and the Congressional Gold Medal (1999). -- Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Encyclopedia of Alabama (Encyclopedia of Alabama)
- Eyes on the Prize Interviews (Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries)
- Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement (Smoking Gun)
- Highlander Folk School: A Photographic History (Highlander Research and Education Center)
- Photograph of Bernice Robinson, Rosa Parks, Joe Brown, Anne Braden, Ralph Tefferteller, and others sitting together during the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1957 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Guy Carawan playing guitar while others sing along during the Memorial to Myles Horton, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1990 May 5 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Martin Luther King, Pete Seeger, Rosa Parks, Ralph Abernathy, and Charis Horton standing in a group pose outside of the library during the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1957 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks, 1954 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks and Charis Horton pouring drinks for Desegregation Workshop students during a coffee break, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1955 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks and F. D. Patterson seated at table during a workshop, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1955 June (Photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks and others seated around a table during a workshop in the library, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks and Septima Clark posing in a group photo with Clinton High School students, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks and Septima Clark seated at table during a workshop, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1957 June (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks and Septima Clark seated outside in chairs, 1954 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks and Septima Clark seated together outside (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks, C.H. Parrish, and F.D. Patterson sitting at a table in discussion during the Desegregation Workshop, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1955 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks, Lillian Johnson, and other during the desegregation workshop, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1955 July 24 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks, mid 1950's (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks seated at table during a workshop, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1957 June (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks seated in a chair with an unidentified person during the fiftieth anniversary of the Highlander Research and Education Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1982 October (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks seated in the library during a workshop, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1955 June (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks, Septima Clark, and Rosa Parks's mother, Leona McCauley, standing together (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks, Septima Clark, F.D. Patterson, C.H. Parrish sitting in the library during the Desegregation Workshop, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1955 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks sitting in the audience in the library during the twenty-fifth anniversary, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1957 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks speaking from the stage (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks standing outside (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks standing outside the library, Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks with Clinton High School students at Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Rosa Parks with Clinton High School students at Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee (Black-and-white photographs)
- Photograph of Septima Clark, C.H. Parrish, F.D. Patterson, Rosa Parks, and others during a Workshop in the Highlander Folk School Library, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1955 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Picture of Rosa Parks during a dinner in her honor, California, 1980 May (Black-and-white photographs)
- Rosa Parks sitting in a chair during fiftieth anniversary gathering, 1982 October (Black-and-white photographs)
- "Integrated in All Respects": Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School Films and the Politics of Segregation (Digital Library of Georgia)
- King County Snapshots: A Photographic Heritage of Seattle and Surrounding Communities (University of Washington's Libraries)
- Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights (Nashville Public Library)
- Warren Wilson College Digital Collections (Digital Library of Appalachia)
- Wisconsin Historical Images (Wisconsin Historical Society)
- With an Even Hand: Brown vs. Board at Fifty (Library of Congress)