#OnThisDay in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This moment sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and ignited a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. Listen as Rosa Parks shares her story in this 1985 interview for “Eyes on the Prize”: https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-151-610vq2sx12 | American Archive of Public Broadcasting

#OnThisDay 1913: Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. The civil rights movement activist was interviewed for the Man Alive programme - Deep South, Deep North: Twenty Years On, back in 1974, recounting the events of that momentous day in Montgomery, Alabama. | BBC Archive