Title

Rosa Parks Gets Fingerprinted

Caption

Montgomery, Alabama: 1956.
Mrs. Rosa Parks, a Negro seamstress, being fingerprinted after her refusal to move to the back of a bus to accomodate a white passenger touched off the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. (Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images)

Date

Jan 01, 1956

Credit line

Photo12/Underwood Archives/UIG

Reference

UMG20A17_065

Model release

No

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,2Mb (5,9Mb) / 16,0in x 12,9in / 4800 x 3875 (300dpi)

Keywords

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