“A Monumental Water Clock,” included in a collection of four treatises on Automata
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Associated Press
Rosa Parks (1913–2005) arrives for trial
Gelatin silver print, 1956
Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Rosa Parks (1913–2005) arrives for trial
After defying an order to move to the “colored” section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, civil rights activist Rosa Parks became a national figure in the fight against racial segregation. The arrest of Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, a year-long campaign demanding an end to segregation on the city’s public transit system. As the longtime secretary of the Montgomery branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Parks worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Montgomery Improvement Association to support the boycott by providing rides to those who needed them. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down segregated seating on public transport in November 1956. Shortly after, on December 5, Rosa Parks was fined $14 for failing to move to the segregated section of a city bus. Here E.D. Nixon, former president of the Alabama NAACP, escorts her up the Montgomery County courthouse steps on March 19, 1956, as they arrive for her trial.
: Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Currently on View at Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
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