#OnThisDay 1955: Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. Visit BBC In History for more on the 'no' that sparked the US civil rights movement. https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20231128-rosa-parks-the-one-moment-that-sparked-the-civil-rights-movement Clip taken from Man Alive: Deep South, originally broadcast on BBC One, 15 May 1974. | BBC Archive

#OnThisDay in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This moment sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and ignited a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Listen as Rosa Parks shares her story in this 1985 interview for “Eyes on the Prize”: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-151-610vq2sx12 | American Archive of Public Broadcasting