<p>Rosa Parks was brought up in Alabama during the Jim Crow era, when state laws enforced segregation in practically all aspects of daily life.</p><p>Public schools, water fountains, trains and buses all had to have separate facilities for white people and black people.</p><p>As a passionate civil rights activist, Rosa was determined to change this.</p><p>In December 1955, she was travelling home from the department store where she worked as a seamstress.</p><p>When a white passenger boarded the bus, Rosa was told to give up her seat.</p><p>Her refusal to do so and subsequent arrest sparked a bus boycott in the city of Montgomery, led by Dr Martin Luther King.</p><p>Using BBC interviews with Rosa and Dr King, Vicky Farncombe tells how Rosa’s story changed civil rights history and led to the end of segregation.</p><p>This programme includes outdated and offensive language.</p><p>(Photo: Rosa Parks sitting on a bus. Credit: Getty Images)</p>
