A powerful moment from Doctor Who highlighting the story of Rosa Parks being arrested. Clip taken from Doctor Who Series 11 Episode 3 ‘Rosa’ All rights to BB DOCTOR: Right. Operation Rosa Parks. (Ryan collects bus timetables. Yasmin goes through telephone directories and newspapers, finding an advert for clothing repairs at Montgomery Fair Department Store. Later, back at the motel.) YASMIN: I've found out where she works. Montgomery Fair Department Store. The Doctor travelled back to 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus (Picture: BBC) As the episode closed, after Rosa took her stance, the Doctor gathered her pals in the The very first scene in Rosa shows Rosa Parks trying to get onto a bus driven by James Blake (the same driver she famously faced off with in 1955) 12 years before the main events of the episode Fascist Fonz tries to stop Rosa’s protest by interfering with the bus schedule and diverting James Blake (Trevor White), the racist bus driver who calls the police on Mrs. Parks, away from the Rosa Parks being fingerprinted after not giving up her seat up on a bus On 1 December 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her seat up for white passengers in Montgomery, Alabama. "Rosa" centres on Rosa Parks' historic refusal to give up her seat on a segregated bus in 1955, which drew the involvement of Martin Luther King Jr. (behind Parks in this image). When the Thirteenth Doctor attempts to return to present-day Sheffield , the TARDIS instead brings her and her friends to Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Back when they first met, his wife Grace (Ryan’s grandmother, who died in episode 1) brought up Rosa Parks when she found out that Graham was a bus driver. His response evidently passed muster Throughout the episode, Rosa Parks is shown to be a strong figure. She’s immensely tired of life in the South being as crummy for people of color as it is, but she uses that frustration as fuel to work towards a better future. A popular myth about Rosa and the bus protest was that the only reason she didn’t stand was that she was tired. The Doctor and companions meet Rosa Parks and find themselves a part of history. Rosa arrives on scene and does some sweet talking to calm They must stay on the bus to ensure Rosa Parks The emphasis of the bus scene very much feels like we are supposed to be feeling more sad for Graham becoming a “part of history” than we are for Rosa Parks, which on one hand makes sense as Graham is more of a character but on the other hand Rosa Parks is a real person and I think this episode did this whole topic a disservice. This video is for entertainment purposes only. All rights go to the BBC. A recap of Doctor Who Season 11, Episode 3: ‘Rosa’ The terrifying opening scene, set a dozen years prior to the rest of the story, shows Rosa Parks (Vinette Robinson, displaying equal The Doctor even follows up with a epilogue about what happens after Rosa’s arrest: the Montgomery bus boycotts, the Parks’ losing their jobs, the desegregation of Montgomery buses in 1956, and I stumbled upon this episode of this series. "When today isn’t working, tomorrow is what you have." As shown in "Rosa," in 1943, Rosa Parks boarded a bus being driven by James Blake. She entered at the front, and paid her fare. Blake told her to follow the rules, and re-enter the bus by the rear doors. When Parks exited the bus to do that, Blake drove off without her. Parks was already an active member of the NAACP, along with her husband. The TARDIS takes the group to 1955, where they discover that a criminal from the future is trying to alter time and make sure that Rosa Parks is never forced to stand on the bus. October 21, 2018 Order Rosa Parks sits on the bus, history goes ahead as normal, because it's not organisations that matter, it's just one person at one time doing one thing. According to the episode, the only part of the Civil Rights Movement that actually mattered was Rosa Parks sitting on the bus, and the rest of it can go hang. None of it mattered, only Rosa Parks. The good news is that ‘Rosa’ absolutely does justice to the events that took place on that evening in 1955. To set the scene, we get a prologue of sorts as we witness Parks’ first encounter Call-Back:. Krasko is a former inmate of Stormcage Prison, where River Song spent some time.; The Doctor still derides the Vortex Manipulator as inferior to the TARDIS.She also describes it as "cheap and nasty", the same terms that the Eleventh Doctor used in "The Big Bang", and Missy later echoed in "The Magician's Apprentice".
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