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Posted Oct 25, 2005 8:57 PM
A young museum visitor looks at the bus that U.S. Civil Rights Activist Rosa Parks was arrested in 50 years ago in Alabama which is now on display at Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan October 25, 2005. The bus, that was purchased and restored by the museum in 2001, is draped with a black and purple shroud to honor Parks who died in Detroit Monday at the age of 92. Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system in Alabama that sparked the modern U.S. civil rights movement. A large portrait of Parks sits on the right. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook Email Photo Print Photo
Mrs. Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Dep. Sherriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger on Dec. 1, 1955. Parks, whose refusal sparked the modern civil rights movement, died Monday Oct. 24, 2005. She was 92. (AP Photo/Gene Herrick)
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