Rosa Parks: 60th anniversary of a historic day in Alabama – in pictures

Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger on 1 December 1955 was one of the most important symbols of the civil rights movement in America

Tue 1 Dec 2015 11.38 EST Last modified on Fri 14 Jul 2017 16.24 EDT

  • Rosa Parks’s booking photo, taken at the time of her arrest in 1955

  • An undated photo of Rosa Parks riding on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama

  • On 22 February 1956, Rosa Parks was fingerprinted in Montgomery after her arrest for violating segregation laws

  • Rosa Parks receives a round of applause from fellow civil rights leaders and supporters as she walks across the stage in front of Montgomery’s state capitol, at the end of the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965

  • Ralph Abernathy, Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks at Martin Luther King’s memorial in Memphis in 1968

  • Rosa Parks demonstrates against apartheid at the South African embassy in Washington in 1984

  • Rosa Parks smiles while people gather around her applaud at a ceremony held in her honour at the House of the Lord Church, in Brooklyn, New York in 1988

  • She was presented with the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1986, along with Joe DiMaggio, Victor Borge, Anita Bryant, Muhammad Ali and Donald Trump

  • Bill Clinton presented Rosa with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996

  • With Vice-President Al Gore in 1999, after he presented her with the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor

  • Rosa Parks and Hillary Clinton embrace at Bill Clinton’s State of the Union address in 1999

  • After Rosa died in 2005, buses in Detroit and Alabama honoured her by reserving the front seat as a tribute to her legacy

  • In 2013, on what would have been her 100th birthday, the US Postal Service issued a stamp bearing her image
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