Rosa Parks Fingerprinted

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after her arrest for disorderly conduct in Montgomery in February 1956. Parks and several other city residents were arrested for their participation in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a key early campaign of the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956
Courtesy of Library of Congress
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956