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[post_page_title]Rosa Parks arrested – 1956[/post_page_title]
In the segregated United States of the 1950s, black people were supposed to give up their bus seats for white people. In December 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat when the bus driver told her to move so white passengers could sit down. The driver called the police, and Parks was arrested. This launched the famous Montgomery bus boycott, for which Parks was arrested again. This picture is from February 1956, and shows Parks being fingerprinted after being booked for her boycott activities.

Rosa Parks arrested – 1956

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