Montgomery Fair Department Store

In this letter Rosa Parks describes a routine workday at Montgomery Fair department store to illustrate the daily indignities and humiliations blacks in the Jim Crow South endured. The newspapers, city bus lines, stores, libraries, schools, and churches evince segregation as “a complete and solid pattern.” In conclusion, she elegizes “the lynch-murder of young Emmett Till of Chicago. This case could be multiplied many times in the South. . . .”