Accordingly PeopleParker Fraley contacted the World War II Home Front National Historical Park with her salvaged newspaper clipping, which included the original signature listing her as the woman in the photo.
“I just wanted my own identity,” she said. “I didn’t want fame or fortune, but I wanted my own identity.”
However, it wouldn’t be another six years before 95-year-old Parker Fraley could set the record straight. In 2015, she was approached by Seton Hall University professor James J. Kimble, who had been searching for the true identity of Rosie the Riveter for six years.
After showing Fraley Kimble proof that she had been Miller’s inspiration, Parker published one Article in a scientific journal“Rosie’s Secret Identity,” in 2016. People magazine then ran an article about the discovery, and Parker Fraley was eventually credited by the media as the inspiration for Rosie the Riveter.
“She had been robbed of her part of the story,” Kimble said People. “It’s so hurtful to be so misidentified. It’s like the train has left the station and you’re standing there and there’s nothing you can do because you’re 95 and no one is hearing your story.”
