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The ‘no’ that sparked the civil rights movement

The ‘no’ that sparked the civil rights movement

By Myles BurkeFeatures correspondent Getty Images Rosa Parks (Credit: Getty Images) On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. In these exclusive BBC clips, discover how her courageous act of defiance set in motion a chain of events that ended segregation in the US, but at …

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