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Bonnie Greer - Rosa Parks

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05/02/2013

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Bonnie Greer - Rosa Parks

Arrested in Alabama over bus segregation, Rosa Park symbolised American Civil Rights.

Arrested in Alabama in 1955 over bus segregation, Rosa Park symbolised the American Civil Rights Movement. Stars Albie Parsons. From December 1997.

On December 1st 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks boarded a bus and refused to give up her seat. Her arrest gave birth to the American Civil Rights Movement.

Bonnie Greer's drama stars Albie Parsons as Rosa Parks, Clarke Peters as ED Nixon, Ray Shell as Martin Luther King, Mona Hammond as Rosa's Mother, Anthony Ofoegbu as Parks, Amanda Gordon as JoAnn Robinson, Alastair Danson as the Judge, Iwan Thomas as the Bus Driver and Christina Chou and Matthew Givens as the Children. 

Director: Claire Grove 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997.

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