Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after refusing to move to the back of the bus to accommodate a white passenger

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Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after refusing to move to the back of the bus to accommodate a white passenger

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Following her arrest, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. On Nov. 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down Alabama state and Montgomery city bus segregation laws as being in violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment of the Constitution

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Underwood Archives / Getty Images

Date

1956

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“Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after refusing to move to the back of the bus to accommodate a white passenger,” Santa Clara University Digital Exhibits, accessed November 23, 2024, https://dh.scu.edu/exhibits/items/show/4034.

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