Rosa Parks, In Her Own Words: The Woman Who Challenged Segregation and Changed the World

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The story of Rosa Parks is often reduced to a single moment on a Montgomery bus. But here, in her own voice, Rosa Parks tells the fuller story of what led to that decision and what followed.

Through rare audio from Felicia Bell,  the director of the Rosa Parks Museum, Parks herself explains how segregation shaped every part of daily life in the South, why she was actually seated legally that day, and how her refusal to move from that seat became the spark that set off a year-long boycott that changed American history forever. 

Rosa Parks in Her Own Words: The Woman Who Challenged a Segregated Nation