Gene Herrick D. H. Lackey
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Born Tuskegee, AlabamaAs a boycott of Montgomery, Alabama’s racially segregated buses entered its third month, Rosa Parks was arrested for the second time. One of 115 black Montgomerians—including Martin Luther King Jr.—to be indicted by the county grand jury on charges of violating a 1921 Alabama law prohibiting boycotts, Parks was taken into custody and jailed on February 22, 1956. Although the Montgomery Improvement Association quickly posted Parks’s bail, this wire service photo of the dignified seamstress being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D. H. Lackey appeared the next day on the front page of the New York Times and ran in countless newspapers across the nation.
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Gelatin Silver Print
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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- Activist
- Activists
- Administrator
- Administrators
- Civil Rights
- Civil Rights Activist
- Congressional Gold Medal
- Costume
- Crafts
- Crafts And Trades
- Craftsman
- D. H. Lackey
- Design
- Drafting & Writing Implements
- Dress Accessories
- Dress Accessory
- Equipment
- Eyeglasses
- Female
- Hat
- Hats
- Headgear
- Herrick, Gene
- Human Figures
- Interior
- Interior Decoration
- Jewelry
- Lackey, D. H
- Law And Law Enforcement
- Male
- Neckties
- Pacifist
- Parks, Rosa
- Pen
- Pens
- Police
- Police Station
- Policeman
- Portrait
- Portraits
- Presidential Medal Of Freedom
- Reformer
- Reformers
- Ring
- Rosa Parks
- Seamstress
- Sheriff
- Society And Social Change
- Textile Worker
- Tie
- Watch
- Women
- Writing Implement