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Playing Rosa's Tune: Music of the Civil Rights Struggle
Tuesday 14 February 2006 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)
Repeated: Saturday 18 February 2006 15:30-16:00 (Radio 4 FM)
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.
As the protest grew, Black singers with their roots in the Southern Christian church were joined, some say usurped, in the public eye of the media, by white folk singers. Stephen Evans concludes his series by talking to those involved in the struggle.
