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Rosa Parks: 60th anniversary of a historic day in Alabama – in pictures
Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger on 1 December 1955 was one of the most important symbols of the civil rights movement in America
Tue 1 Dec 2015 11.38 EST Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 16.24 EDT
Rosa Parks’s booking photo, taken at the time of her arrest in 1955 Photograph: History Archive/Shutterstock/Rex
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAn undated photo of Rosa Parks riding on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama Photograph: AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterOn 22 February 1956, Rosa Parks was fingerprinted in Montgomery after her arrest for violating segregation laws Photograph: Gene Herrick/AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterRosa Parks receives a round of applause from fellow civil rights leaders and supporters as she walks across the stage in front of Montgomery’s state capitol, at the end of the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965 Photograph: Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterRalph Abernathy, Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks at Martin Luther King’s memorial in Memphis in 1968 Photograph: Bob Adelman/Corbis
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterRosa Parks demonstrates against apartheid at the South African embassy in Washington in 1984 Photograph: AP
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterRosa Parks smiles while people gather around her applaud at a ceremony held in her honour at the House of the Lord Church, in Brooklyn, New York in 1988 Photograph: Angel Franco/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterShe was presented with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1986, along with Joe DiMaggio, Victor Borge, Anita Bryant, Muhammad Ali and Donald Trump Photograph: Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterBill Clinton presented Rosa with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 Photograph: Sipa Press/Shutterstock/Rex
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterWith Vice-President Al Gore in 1999, after he presented her with the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor Photograph: Paul Sancya/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterRosa Parks and Hillary Clinton embrace at Bill Clinton’s State of the Union address in 1999 Photograph: Luke Frazza/AFP/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAfter Rosa died in 2005, buses in Detroit and Alabama honoured her by reserving the front seat as a tribute to her legacy Photograph: Rebecca Cook/Reuters
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterIn 2013, on what would have been her 100th birthday, the US Postal Service issued a stamp bearing her image Photograph: Alamy
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