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This is the photo of American civil rights icon Rosa Parks meeting South Africa's icon, Nelson Mandela. The significance is how important each of these people where in the civil rights movement in their respective countries. Both of these people where arrested for their roles and their actions.

Rosa Parks never stopped believing in the civil rights cause. She continued to protest world racial injustice. Here is a photo of Rosa Parks protesting South Africa's apartheid.

Rosa Parks is an American icon for her stand against racial injustice and her protest of segregation. This shows her meeting with another icon of racial injustice and segregation; Nelson Mandela.

This website revolves around the recent unveiling of Rosa Parks' statue in the Capitol. The bronze statue is modeled after the iconic picture of Rosa on the bus, with her hands folded in her lap, and is the first African-American woman to be immortalized in such a fashion. The website, although it only focuses on this one event, is useful in exploring the original image because it shows us just how much of a profound impact Rosa Parks made that fateful day 58 years ago. It reminds us that no matter how much time elapses, moments are forever remembered and honored.

This essay by Amanda C. Burdan gives us a larger scope of Evans and his journey through photography while keeping the central point his iconic 'Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer's Wife' photo.