Rosa Parks' dress
December 1 2011
Picture: Smithsonian Institute
Not exactly art history this, but arguably art, and certainly history. The dress above is in the Smithsonian Institute. It belonged to Rosa Parks, the Alabama civil rights activist who, on this day in 1955, was arrested on her bus journey home for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. Parks was a seamstress. And this is the dress she was working on at the time. Pretty cool object eh?
