Unseen Photos of Rosa Parks Return to Montgomery, Alabama, Seven Decades Later

Previously unreleased photographs taken by Civil Rights photographer Matt Herron have been made public, showing Rosa Parks participating in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, a decade after her famous bus boycott action. The photos, discovered on a contact sheet at Stanford University, were originally deemed unsuitable for publication because they were blurry or featured lesser-known individuals, but they now serve to illustrate Parks' sustained activism beyond her most famous act. Herron's widow is working with historians to return these images to the communities depicted, resulting in emotional reunions like the one between marcher Doris Wilson and the doctor who treated her blistered feet sixty years ago.