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Archivists at the Library of Congress are hard at work cataloging the papers of Rosa Parks, received on loan recently after a legal battle kept them under lock and key for the past decade.
Among the collection are a receipt for a voting booth’s poll tax, postcards from Martin Luther King Jr., a datebook with the names of volunteer carpool drivers who would help blacks get to work during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and thousands of other historic documents.
Meg McAleer, a senior archives specialist working on Rosa Parks’ papers, spoke with NPR’s Audie Cornish about the documents. Excerpts are below — but to get Parks’ full recipe for feather-light pancakes, you’ll have to listen to the audio above.
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![Rosa Parks, shown here in a photo from 1950, is famous as a "quiet seamstress" who refused to give up her bus seat — but a newly-available set of papers reveals a more animated voice, says an archives specialist working with the documents.](http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2015/02/06/38465u-d0f32f089168743c9fc16f587fba22c01c0aef16-s400-c85.jpg "Rosa Parks, shown here in a photo from 1950, is famous as a "quiet seamstress" who refused to give up her bus seat — but a newly-available set of papers reveals a more animated voice, says an archives specialist working with the documents.")
Rosa Parks, shown here in a photo from 1950, is famous as a “quiet seamstress” who refused to give up her bus seat — but…
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