Research Catalog
Rosa Parks portrait collection
- Title
- Rosa Parks portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1950?-1994?>
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Parks, Rosa | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Description
- <13> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.
- <3> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- Summary
- 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
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Women civic leaders > United States
- Gelatin silver prints > 1950-1999
- Portrait photographs > 1950-1999
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
- Public speaking > 1950-1959
- Rewards & prizes > 1980-1989
- Parrish, C.H
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
- African Americans > Civil rights > 1950-1989
- Clark, Septima Poinsette, 1898-1987
- Patterson, Frederick D (Frederick Douglass), 1901-1988
- Highlander Folk School (Monteague, Tenn.)
- African American civil rights workers
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
- Group portraits > 1950-1999
- African American women civil rights workers
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 1950-1999.
- Group portraits – 1950-1999.
- Gelatin silver prints – 1950-1999.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Some images are cropped; some images bear handwritten captions.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Parks, Rosa
- OCLC
- NYPG085000414-F
- Title
- Rosa Parks portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1950?-1994?>
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Local Note
- Negatives available for most images.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Parks, Rosa