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Rosa Parks sits for a booking photo following her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, on Dec. 1, 1955. She would have turned 97 this week.

Previous Little Pictures in honor of Black History Month:
The P-51 Mustang Group of the 15th Army Air Force
The Little Rock Nine
Jack Johnson
Jitterbugging in Clarksdale, Mississippi

Alexandra Gutierrez is a reporter based in the Aleutian Islands. She is also former associate web editor of The American Prospect.