PHOTOGRAPH ***Signed***

Parks, Rosa

Publication Date: 1992

About this Item

Inscribed "Rosa Parks 3/17/92" in blue ink. Black and white photograph measures 5.0" X 7.0" and is in FINE condition. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 ? October 24, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist. She was called "the mother of the Modern-Day American civil rights movement" and "the mother of the freedom movement". A seamstress and long-time member of the Montgomery, Ala., chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), her Dec. 1, 1955, arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. This successful protest, which lasted just over a year, marked the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr., to national prominence as a civil-rights leader and provided the model for future nonviolent movement actions. Fired from her job and unable to find work, Parks moved in 1957 to Detroit, where she remained active in the civil-rights movement and worked (1965-88) as an aide to Congressman John Conyers. She was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress's highest honor, in 1999. The photographs of Rosa Parks shown in the listing are for display purposes only and not included as part of the sale. Seller Inventory # 003042

Bibliographic Details

Title: PHOTOGRAPH ***Signed***

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)