“Usually, when we add images to our mug shot collection, it’s a drunken starlet or a former child actor. However, we’ve classed things up today with recently discovered booking photos of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. taken following the pair’s arrest during the 1956 Montgomery bus boycotts. Look here:

Martin Luther King Jr. was photographed by Alabama cops following his February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycotts. The historic mug shot, taken when King was 27, was discovered in July 2004 by a deputy cleaning out a Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department storage room. It is unclear when the notations “DEAD” and “4-4-68″ were written on the picture.

Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was photographed by Alabama cops following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery bus boycotts. The booking photo, taken when Parks was 43, was discovered in July 2004 by a deputy cleaning out a Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department storage room.”