Photos: Civil Rights leader Rosa Parks’ 100th Birthday
February 4, 2013
Rosa Parks rides on the Montgomery Area Transit System bus. Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser)
Rosa Parks, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus touched off the Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the civil rights movement, is fingerprinted by police Lt. D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 22, 1956. She was among some 100 people charged with violating segregation laws. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)
Rosa Parks original fingerprint card from her 1955 Montgomery arrest is pictured at the National Archives Southeast Region in Morrow, Ga., Friday Oct. 28, 2005. The National Archives provided the opportunity for the media to see select original documents relating to her 1955 Montgomery arrest in which she refused to obey the order of a bus driver to give up her seat to a white passenger. (AP Photo/John Amis)
A Montgomery (Ala.) Sheriff's Department booking photo of Rosa Parks taken Feb 22, 1956, after she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Montgomery County Sheriff's office)
Rosa Parks' original Montgomery police department report from her 1955 arrest, charged with refusing to obey the order of a bus driver to give up her seat to a white passenger, is pictured at the National Archives Southeast Region in Morrow, Ga., Friday Oct. 28, 2005. (AP Photo/John Amis)
The original diagram used in the 1955 court case for Rosa Parks shows where she was seated on the bus when she was asked to move for white passengers, is pictured at the National Archives Southeast Region in Morrow, Ga., Friday Oct. 28, 2005. The National Archives provided the opportunity for the media to see select original documents relating to her Montgomery arrest. (AP Photo/John Amis)
An unidentified young Black 'Freedom Rider' is told to leave a segregated 'white' waiting room at a bus depot in Jackson, Mississippi, May 26, 1961. The Freedom Riders traveled from Montgomery, Alabama to Mississippi to protest segregation in public bus depots. February 4, 2013 will mark 100 years since the birth of civil rights activist Rosa Parks who was brought to attention when in 1955 she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger in Alabama. The US Postal service are due to unveil a special stamp which features her in an unveiling ceremony scheduled on her birthday at museums in both Detroit and Michigan. (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images)
Rosa Parks is escorted by E.D. Nixon, former president of the Alabama NAACP, on arrival at the courthouse in Montgomery March 19, 1956 for the trial in the racial bus boycott. Mrs. Parks was fined $14 on Dec. 5 for failing to give up her seat for a white passenger on a city bus. The bus boycott started on the day she was fined. There were 91 other defendants. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)
Rosa Parks, who once refused to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, now works on the staff of U.S. Congressman John Conyers, Jr., of the first district Michigan in Detroit, May 28, 1971. (AP Photo/Jim McKnight)
Rosa Parks, center, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man 20 years ago sparked the historic Montgomery bus boycott, is honored, Dec. 5, 1975 at ceremonies commemorating the civil rights crusade in Montgomery. Beside her are Mrs. Jonnie Carr, president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, and U.S. Rep. Walter Fauntroy of Washington, D.C. (AP Photo)
Rosa Parks, right, is kissed by Coretta Scott King, as she received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Non-violent Peace Prize in Atlanta, Jan. 14, 1980. Parks, who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus nearly 25 years ago, is the first woman to win the award. (AP Photo)
Rosa Parks speaks at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 15, 1969. (AP Photo/Joe Holloway, Jr.)
Rosalynn Carter applauds as President Jimmy Carter introduces former civil rights protester Rosa Parks at the conclusion of Carter's speech before the annual Congressional Black Caucus dinner in Washington on Sept. 30, 1978. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
Rosa Parks, who sparked the civil rights movement nearly 30 years ago by refusing to give up a bus seat in Montgomery, Ala., joins in a march at the South African Embassy in Washington, Dec. 10, 1984, protesting that country's racial policies. Rep. Mickey Leland, D-Tex., marches behind her. (AP Photo)
Rosa Parks is seen Oct. 26, 1990 in New York. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)
Civil rights legend Rosa Parks, of Detroit, MI, signs an autograph for an emotional Joyce Hunter, left, of Queens, N.Y., after Mrs. Parks, arrived on July 12, 1992 at New York's LaGuardia Airport for the start of the Democratic National Convention in New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Rosa Parks, who ignited the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama bus in 1955, signs autographs after speaking at the Ford Hall Forum on May 6, 1991 in Boston. Parks was honored by the forum with its Annual First Amendment Award for her commitment to free expression. (AP Photo/Julia Malakie)
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, left center, and civil rights movement pioneer Rosa Parks, right center, join striking Greyhound workers at a rally in front of Union Station in Washington, June 19, 1990. Jackson urged the bus riding public to boycott the company. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Jesse Jackson raises the arm of Rosa Parks as he honored the heroine of the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, during his appearance before the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta, July 19, 1988. Jackson saluted Democratic nominee-to-be Michael Dukakis as a rival who always resisted the temptation to stoop to demagoguery. (AP Photo)
This is a Nov 21, 1992 photo of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks pictured in front of a mural at the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala. Friday, Dec. 1, 1995 is the 40th anniversary of Park's arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. (AP Photo)
Rosa Parks, right, is seen with former Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide in Washington in August 1993. (AP Photo)
Rosa Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955 began a 381-day boycott of the Montgomery, Ala., city bus line, is escorted to the speaker's stand at the dedication of the National Civil Rights Museum on July 4, 1991 in Memphis. At upper right is a wreath marking the spot where Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Malcolm Collum, senior conservator, works on cleaning up the 1948 General Motors bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat more than 45 years ago, at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., Thursday, Nov. 15, 2001. The museum took possession of the bus Thursday after acquiring it at auction for $492,000 in October. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
The interior of the 1948 General Motors bus on which Rosa Parks supposedly refused to give up her seat in 1955, is shown at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., Thursday, Nov. 15, 2001. The museum took possession of the bus Thursday after acquiring it through an Internet auction for $492,000 in October. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Julian Rehm of Freudenstadt, Germany, right, photographs the bus that Rosa Parks rode when she refused to yield to a white man a half-century ago, at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2005. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Rosa Parks visits an exhibit illustrating her bus ride of December, 1955 at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn., Saturday, July 15, 1995. Parks visited around the city to inaugurate her three-week "Freedom Ride" throughout the country. (AP Photo/Troy Glasgow)
Visitors at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis listen as recording of a bus driver "threatens" figure of Rosa Parks, left, seated in the front of the bus. The bus, a real Montgomery, Ala., city bus of the 1950s, is one of the displays at the museum, formerly the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in 1968. Visiting the bus are, from left front, Sheritha and Quanitha Cobb; at rear, Jerry Mack and Arlene Cobb, all from Dallas, Tex. (AP Photo)
Two children look over a display, at the Museum of African American History, Thursday, April 3, 1997, highlighting Rosa Park's bus ride in Montgomery. The museum will present the largest exhibition in the country on African Americans, museum officials say when it opens to the public on April 12. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Johnnie Carr, president of the Montgomery Improvement Association steps out of a 1950's era city bus, similar to the one ridden by Rosa Parks during a news conference Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005, at the Dexter-King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala. The association announced plans for the upcoming 50th Anniversary of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
Johnnie Carr, president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, waits to be interviewed while sitting inside a 1950's era city bus, similar to the one ridden by Rosa Parks during a news conference Thursday Aug. 25, 2005 at the Dexter-King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala. The association announced plans for the upcoming 50th Anniversary of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
A poster entitled "It All Started On A Bus," is posted above the front seat of a New York City bus to honor Rosa Parks in Harlem, New York, Dec. 1, 2005. Today marks the 50th anniversary of act of civil disobedience by Rosa Parks, an African American woman who was jailed after she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her action fueled the civil rights movement and the MTA hope transit riders will leave the reserved seat empty as a tribute to Parks. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
Rosa Parks, left, talks with President Clinton during a Capitol Hill ceremony where Mrs. Parks was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal Tuesday, June 15, 1999, in Washington. Clinton signed a bill last month bestowing Congress' highest recognition on the 86-year-old Mrs. Parks. (AP Photo/Khue Bui)
Rosa Parks, joined by Dorothy Height, president emeritus and chairman of the board of the National Council of Negro Women, left, and actress Cicely Tyson, right, take part in "A High Tea of Celebration" to honor Parks receipt of the Congressional Gold Medal. She will receive the medal from President Clinton during a Capitol Hill ceremony Tuesday, June 15. (AP Photo/Khue Bui)
Rosa Parks, 84, holds a program from the Rosa Park Elementary School dedication during the ceremony in this Thursday April 24, 1997 file photo, in San Francisco. Parks, the black seamstress who helped launch the civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Alabama's capital, will be inducted in 2008 into the state Women's Hall of Fame. (AP Photo/Lacy Atkins)
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, center, addresses the crowd at St. Paul A.M.E. Church as the body of civil rights icon Rosa Parks lies in repose, Sunday Oct. 30, 2005, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks as the casket of civil rights icon Rosa Parks lies at St. Paul A.M.E. Church Sunday Oct. 30, 2005 in Montgomery, Ala. The church held a memorial service for the 92-year-old Tuskegee native who died at her home in Detroit earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
Television talk show host Oprah Winfrey, second left, listens to speeches, during a memorial services for Rosa Parks at the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, Monday, Oct. 31, 2005. From left are, Rep. Melvin Watt, D-N.C., Winfrey, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Damon Keith, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. (AP Photo/Ron Thomas)
An unidentified woman holds a portrait of Rosa Parks outside the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church before a memorial service for the late civil rights icon, on Monday, Oct. 31, 2005 in Washington. Parks, who died last Monday in Detroit, refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
Marchers pass by a street sign honoring Rosa Parks during a memorial service for her Wednesday Oct. 26, 2005 in Tuskegee, Ala. Parks, 92, a native of Tuskegee, died earlier in the week at her home in Detroit. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
A military honor guard carries the casket containing civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks out of Greater Grace Temple as Jesse Jackson (top center) and Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, next to Jackson, look on after her funeral service on November 2, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. The funeral lasted more the seven hours with more then 20 speakers. In 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, an incident which sparked the civil rights movement.February 4, 2013 will mark 100 years since the birth of civil rights activist Rosa Parks who was brought to attention when in 1955 she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger in Alabama. (Photo by Bryan Mitchell/Getty Images)
People walk past the casket of civil rights icon Rosa Parks in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol building on Monday, Oct. 31, 2005 in Washington. More than 30,000 Americans streamed through the U.S. Capitol Rotunda to pay tribute Monday to Rosa Parks. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Detail of Rosa Parks in the stained glass windows at the Shorter Community African Methodist Episcopal Church in Denver on Thursday, March 8, 2012. Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks is seen in her Detroit home on June 22, 1988. Parks, 92, died Monday, Oct. 24, 2005 at her home of natural causes, with close friends by her side, said Gregory Reed, an attorney who represented her for the past 15 years. (AP Photo/Michael J. Samojeden)
Rosa Parks smiles during a ceremony where she received the Congressional Medal of Freedom in Detroit on Nov. 28, 1999. A lawyer involved in a long-running dispute over the estate of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks claims that a judge allowed two other lawyers to pile up fees that ate away about two-thirds of the estate's $372,000 cash value. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
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