On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery

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ON THIS DAY: On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. http://pic.twitter.com/JXBQkDVWCZ

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) December 1, 2017

Evidently the man behind her was a reporter.

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Police report on the arrest of Rosa Parks, when she refused to to give up her seat on a bus for a white man, 1955. pic.twitter.com/35eMGQrvzz

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The mugshot and finger-printing images often used to illustrate stories about her stand on the bus were actually taken months afterward, after she presented herself for arrest when Montgomery criminalized the carpools that the city’s black community was using to orchestrate the bus boycott. The bus image meanwhile was staged at a later date; the man sitting in the seat behind her is a reporter.