Playing Rosa's Tune: Music of the Civil Rights Struggle [30min]

In October 2005, Mrs Rosa Parks, the mother of the civil rights movement, died at the age of 92. Fifty years earlier, then an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, and her subsequent arrest, ignited the civil rights movement in America. Stephen Evans tells the story of how music was used to chronicle the struggle she had initiated, and how important it was as an integral weapon of its armoury.