{"id":59505,"date":"2013-12-01T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T21:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=59505"},"modified":"2013-12-03T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T20:27:00","slug":"official-documents-from-the-arrest-of-rosa-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/12\/01\/official-documents-from-the-arrest-of-rosa-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Documents from the Arrest of Rosa Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty eight years ago today, Rosa Parks kicked off a plan to bring down Jim Crow segregation by refusing to move to the back of the bus. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawneeSoc\" target=\"_blank\">@ShawneeSoc<\/a> sent us a link to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, where they featured her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2013\/12\/01\/rosa-parkss-official-arrest-report-she-refused-to-give-bus-seat-to-white-man-58-years-ago-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">original arrest documents<\/a>. \u00a0A <em>very<\/em> cool piece of history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/rosa-parks.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59506 aligncenter\" alt=\"rosa-parks\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/rosa-parks-500x632.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/rosa-parks-500x632.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/rosa-parks.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/rosa-parks-bus.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59507 aligncenter\" alt=\"rosa-parks-bus\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/rosa-parks-bus-500x581.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/rosa-parks-bus-500x581.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/rosa-parks-bus.jpg 516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Bonus, here&#8217;s the law that Parks was arrested for violating and an <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kentlaw.iit.edu\/library\/exhibits\/montgomery-1955\/images-documents\/montgomery-city-code\/\" target=\"_blank\">explanation<\/a> (thanks to Mart\u00edn A. for the link):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/Montgomery-City-Code.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Montgomery-City-Code\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/Montgomery-City-Code.jpg\" width=\"431\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty eight years ago today, Rosa Parks kicked off a plan to bring down Jim Crow segregation by refusing to move to the back of the bus. \u00a0@ShawneeSoc sent us a link to the Washington Post, where they featured her original arrest documents. \u00a0A very cool piece of history. Bonus, here&#8217;s the law that Parks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":59510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,253,3920,283,285,1760,20063,1757],"class_list":["post-59505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-history","tag-nation-united-states","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/Official-Documents-from-the-Arrest-of-Rosa-Parks.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59505"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59693,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59505\/revisions\/59693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}