An original period image restored and tinted by internationally known color artist and author of "Restoring and Tinting Vintage Images", David Richardson. This is an exclusive listing of his work.
Each image is taken from a high resolution negative and then cleaned of blemishes, damage, scratches, and whatever the decades have caused. Then the image is carefully brought back to life by adding color to the black and white image. By using these techniques the hands of time are turned back and for the first time you can see the images in color as they might have been on the day they were taken.
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Rosa Parks
“I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that
I couldn’t take it anymore,” Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give
up her seat on a bus to a white man.
After 381 days, the Montgomery bus boycott ended with the United States
Supreme Court ruling that the Montgomery's segregated bus system was illegal.
This photo was taken on December 21, 1956, the day after the
Supreme Court's ruling was recorded in the Montgomery, Alabama district court. Parks told Douglas Brinkley, "she had
left her home at the Cleveland Courts housing project specifically for a
picture on a bus, and that the idea was for her to be seated in the front of
the bus with a white man behind. Similar
photo opportunities were arranged for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and
others during the day."
According to
Brinkley, Parks "was reluctant to take part in the picture, but both the
journalists and members of the civil rights community wanted an image that
would dramatize what had occurred."
An United
Press International (UPI) reporter and two photographers from Look magazine had
arranged for the picture. The reporter
was Nicholas C. Chriss who is seen sitting behind Parks.
According to
Chriss, "Each anniversary of that day, this photograph is brought out of
musty files and used in various publications around the world. But to this day no one has ever made clear
that it was a reporter, I, covering this event and sitting behind Mrs. Parks,
not some sullen white segregationist! It
was a great scoop for me, but Mrs. Parks had little to say. She seemed to want to savor the event alone.''