Dr. Jeannine Herron, Donna Beisel and Montgomery NAACP President Isaiah Sankey are shown in front of photo of Mrs. Parks taken by Matt Herron.
Rarely seen photos of Rosa Parks taken at the conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in 1965 by famed photographer Matt Herron have a new home – Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum.
Herron, known for his photography of landmark events in the Civil Rights Movement, took the photos of Mrs. Parks at…
Students from Montgomery's Dozier Elementary School prepare to tour the Rosa Parks Museum's main exhibit on Dec. 1.
At 6:06 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 1, bells around the country chimed for 70 seconds to mark the 70th anniversary of the historic arrest of Rosa Parks that sparked the 382-day boycott of Montgomery city buses. At Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum, located on the spot of Mrs. Parks’ arrest, those bells not only were…