June 2010 Catalog > Photo Collection > Americana Photographs
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Lot 1209: Rosa Parks
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Two prints of Rosa Parks from the 1970s; one shows her being fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama In February, 1956 after refusing to give up her seat on the bus; the other has her riding in the front of the bus in December, 1956 as a Supreme Court ruling banning segregation on Montgomery's public transit vehicles took effect. There are paper captions on the backs of both. 8 x 10". MT.
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