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Unseen photos of Rosa Parks return to Montgomery, Alabama, seven decades later
Photos from the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march reveal Rosa Parks' activism beyond the bus boycott and highlight everyday participants, museum director said.
- On Thursday, the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery received new photographs of Rosa Parks from the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, shown as people gathered Friday to mark 70 years since the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
- Jeannine Herron found the images on a Stanford University contact sheet and said they were not selected for print, underscoring Rosa Parks' activism beyond her Dec. 1, 1955 bus refusal.
- Doris Wilson joined residents to view photos showing her receiving medical care for blisters after walking over 10 miles daily, reunited with June Finer, physician who treated marchers, after six decades.
- Among returned photos, images of the campsite at Cheryl Gardner Davis's childhood home ended years of searching, revealing her family faced retaliation including a threatened teaching job and a neighbor with a rifle.
- Matt Herron died in 2020 before he could reconnect many Civil Rights movement participants, and many of these images were never printed during his lifetime despite his focus on everyday people.
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Unseen photos of Rosa Parks return to Montgomery, Alabama, seven decades later
Newly released photos of Rosa Parks emphasize lesser-known aspects of her legacy. These images, made public for the first time, show Parks a decade after her involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 70 years ago this month.
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