In the wake of Rosa Parks’s death, a mug shot of her taken during the Montgomery bus boycotts accompanied most media accounts of the civil rights pioneer’s life. That 1956 photo (and a similar one of Martin Luther King, Jr.) was discovered last year by a deputy cleaning out a Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department storage room. Turns out that Alabama basement contained about 100 other historic booking photos taken at the time of the Parks arrest and, five years later, during a Freedom Riders …
