Rosa Parks Boards a Desegregated Bus

Rosa Parks is shown here during a symbolic ride in the formerly whites-only section of a city bus in Montgomery on December 21, 1956, the day the U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation of the city's public transit vehicles.

Rosa Parks stands at the front of a line of people waiting to board a bus.
Photograph by Don Cravens/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Rosa Parks stands at the front of a line of people waiting to board a bus.