Rosa Parks being fingerprinted

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Associated Press photograph.

Date created: December 1, 1955
License: This photograph copyright ©1955. All Rights Reserved
Source: Original image housed by Library of Congress

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Postwar North Carolina: Primary sources and readings explore the history of North Carolina and the United States during the postwar era (1945–1975). (Page 3.7)

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Rosa Parks being fingerprinted

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Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by a white police officer after her arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat, December 1, 1955.

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