Wednesday 7 October 2026 · Rosa Parks Papers / NAACP · Finding #219 · standing three hundred fifteen

Rosa Parks Finding #219 — 1956 NAACP circular: ICC interstate ruling did not reach intrastate

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A January 13, 1956 national NAACP circular explicitly said the ICC’s January 10 interstate rail/bus desegregation ruling did not reach intrastate travel wholly within one state. Amid the Montgomery bus boycott, this distinction prevents conflating that federal interstate ruling with desegregation of local city-bus trips.

Craft boundary. The circular is not Parks’s memoir, not the ICC order itself, and not proof that Parks acted on it. Source-limited to the circular’s explicit jurisdictional statement. Primary LOC leaves 6 and 8 with checksums in the immutable note.

Immutable note: repo @ c1a2c662. Standing three hundred fifteen.