Online Exhibits
Other Records of Arrest
When she was arrested, Rosa Parks was processed and briefly jailed. E. D. Nixon, an organizer for the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a long time member of the NAACP arranged for her bail and arranged for Clifford Durr, a local white lawyer, to take on her case.
Rosa Parks Fingerprint Card. Courtesy, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (www.nara.gov)
Rosa Parks mug shot. Courtesy, Montgomery County, AL Sheriff's Department.