Rosa Parks and Other Civil Rights Leaders, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

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A black-and-white digital image Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, Rosa Parks, Reverend C. T. Vivian, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and two additional men standing on the stage at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The lectern can be seen on the left of the image with another two microphones standing beside. All the men are wearing suits and ties while Parks wears a skirt suit with matching pillbox hat. Parks, Walker, and two men are standing in a cluster, while Parks holds a book. Vivian and King stand on the right clapping. Men and women can be seen seated in the pews behind. The pews and stage are in front of a large organ.

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