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On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger.
The repercussions were swift.
The arrest was not an isolated event but a consequence of the Jim Crow laws, legislation designed to codify racism and marginalise black Americans.
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 a personal cost to Parks herself.
This video is from 'In History,' which uses the BBC's archive to explore historical events. For more like this, visit: https://bbc.in/3T33Quf
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The repercussions were swift.
The arrest was not an isolated event but a consequence of the Jim Crow laws, legislation designed to codify racism and marginalise black Americans.
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 a personal cost to Parks herself.
This video is from 'In History,' which uses the BBC's archive to explore historical events. For more like this, visit: https://bbc.in/3T33Quf
Please subscribe here: http://bit.ly/1rbfUog
#US #History #BBCNews
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