archivesfoundation:Help us share America’s stories, like that of Rosa Parks, this #GivingTuesday
archivesfoundation:Help us share America’s stories, like that of Rosa Parks, this #GivingTuesday by donating today: archivesfoundation.org/donate60 years ago today, Rosa Parks made history when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, public bus. Parks was arrested, and the resulting police report can be seen here.Though not the first act of civil disobedience in the Civil Rights movement, Parks’ arrest became a turning point, a rallying cry, and led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott a few days later. It ended more than a year later on December 20, 1956, when Browder v. Gayle, a Federal ruling declaring racially segregated seating on buses to be unconstitutional, took effect.Learn more at http://1.usa.gov/1lsOnjQ. Rosa Parks’ fingerprints and other documents related to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights movement can be found in the National Archives exhibition “Records of Rights” and online at recordsofrights.orgImages:Rosa Parks, 1965. Records of the U.S. Information Agency.Police Report on Arrest of Rosa Parks Fingerprint Card of Rosa Parks -- source link