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State Alabama Medium photographic prints1950-1960.gmgpc

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1. [E. D. Nixon escorting Rosa Parks to the courthouse in Montgomery, Alabama, where she was tried for her role in the bus boycott, 1956] [graphic].

Date of Original:: 1956
Collection:: Rosa Parks Papers
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

2. [Group portrait with Rosa Parks and others, likely at an event, after the Montgomery Bus boycott] [graphic].

Date of Original:: 1956
Collection:: Rosa Parks Papers
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

3. [Rosa Parks and journalist Nicholas Chriss sitting at the front of a city bus after court ordered integration, Montgomery, Alabama, December 21, 1956] [graphic].

Date of Original:: 1956
Collection:: Rosa Parks Papers
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

4. [Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested for boycotting public transportation, Montgomery, Alabama, February, 1956] [graphic].

Date of Original:: 1956
Collection:: Rosa Parks Papers
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress