This photo of Rosa Parks sitting in the front of a bus was actually taken after the Supreme Court disbanded Montgomery's segregated bus system, but it remains a classic symbol.
Underwood Archives/Getty ImagesThe white man sitting behind Parks is Nicholas C. Chriss, a journalist who was covering the civil rights movement for United Press International.
"But to this day no one has ever made clear that it was a reporter, I, covering this event and sitting behind Mrs.
Parks, not some sullen white segregationist!
She seemed to want to savor the event alone."
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Rosa, Parks, Nicholas C, Chriss
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Rosa Parks, Supreme, Underwood Archives, United Press, Houston Chronicle, New York Times