Historical Photos To Blow Your Mind: New Release!

Rosa Parks Arrest Photo

In 1955, Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her act of nonviolent resistance started the Montgomery bus boycott, a successful eleven-month struggle to desegregate the city’s buses.

Parks wasn’t the first protester to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat, but NAACP organizers believed she could hold up under intense scrutiny and should be the face of this battle. They saw through a court challenge based on her arrest for violating Alabama’s segregation laws, though ultimately the Browder v. Gayle case succeeded first.

Underground Train

This is the first ever underground train journey, in London in 1862. The first underground railway, known as Metropolitan Railway, opened in 1863. The train eventually evolved into today’s Tube, and the original railway is now part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines.

Ever wondered why it’s called the Tube? The system’s first tunnels were built right below the surface fusing a cut-and-cover method, and later smaller circular tunnels were cut through at a deeper level. The system may have started with a single underground journey, but it now has 270 stations and 250 miles of track.