Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)
2. Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

Description

1. <13> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.

Summary

1. Views of civil rights leader and mother of the modern civil rights movement Rosa Parks. The collection consists of individual portraits of Parks (ca. 1950s and 1980s), including views of her at an unidentified medal presentation (n.d.); in Philadelphia tapping on the Liberty Bell (n.d.); and during her appearance on ABC Television's "Good Morning Show" (1985). Also included are group portraits of Parks with C.H. Parrish and Phelps-Stokes Fund President Frederick D. Patterson attending a desegregation workshop at the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee (ca. 1955); with educator/civil rights activist Septima Clark at the Highlander Folk School (ca. 1950s); and with civil rights activists Coretta Scott King and Rev. Ralph Abernathy at an unidentified event (n.d.).

Donor/Sponsor

1. Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

1. Parrish, C.H
2. Women civic leaders > United States
3. African Americans > Civil rights > 1950-1989
4. Rewards & prizes > 1980-1989
5. Portrait photographs > 1950-1999
6. African American women civil rights workers
7. African American civil rights workers
8. Patterson, Frederick D (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988
9. Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
10. Group portraits > 1950-1999
11. Gelatin silver prints > 1950-1999
12. King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
13. Public speaking > 1950-1959
14. Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987
15. Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
16. Highlander Folk School (Monteague, Tenn.)

Genre/Form

1. Portrait photographs – 1950-1999.
2. Group portraits – 1950-1999.
3. Gelatin silver prints – 1950-1999.

Call number

1. Sc Photo Parks, Rosa

Note

1. Title devised by cataloger.
2. Some images are cropped; some images bear handwritten captions.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Title

1. Rosa Parks portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

1. <1950?-1994?>

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local note

1. Negatives available for most images.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Appointment

Added author

1. Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)
2. Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

Research call number

1. Sc Photo Parks, Rosa