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I appreciate the simplicity in the naming of this website.  "Iconic photos" is a blog of just that: iconic photos.  What better place to look for our photograph of Rosa Parks?  In addition to a photo itself, this website also provides some background information on each of the photographs as well.  The page dedicated to our class photo begins with Parks herself speaking in a personal quote about what drove her to refuse to give up her seat.  The site explains how this specific photo was not a candid shot, but posed. 

This page from the United Tribune website reports the story behind the photo of Rosa Parks that we are studying this week. While I realized that the photo was staged, I did not know that the man seated behind Rosa Parks was a reporter (Nicholas C. Chriss) who worked for the United Press. The page gives some important background information about what the photograph is meant to represent.