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By at least [[1943]], a system of [[racial segregation]] was in place in Alabama. [[Black people]] and [[Mexico|Mexicans]] were often forced to use separate facilities from the [[White people|whites]]. In the city of [[Montgomery]], black people had to enter and sit at the back of [[Bus|buses]]. When [[Rosa Parks]] entered at the front and attempted to question the system, she was forced to get off the bus. Trying to enter through the back door, the driver instead drove off without her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'') | By at least [[1943]], a system of [[racial segregation]] was in place in Alabama. [[Black people]] and [[Mexico|Mexicans]] were often forced to use separate facilities from the [[White people|whites]]. In the city of [[Montgomery]], black people had to enter and sit at the back of [[Bus|buses]]. When [[Rosa Parks]] entered at the front and attempted to question the system, she was forced to get off the bus. Trying to enter through the back door, the driver instead drove off without her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'') | ||
Racial segregation was still in place by 1955, along with constant violent [[racism]]. When [[Ryan Sinclair]] attempted to hand a dropped glove back to a passerby, Lizzie, her husband ordered him to keep his "filthy black hands" off her, and alluded to the practice of lynching were he to disturb a white woman in Montgomery. Ryan was denied service at [[Slim's Bar]] for being a "[[negro]]" as well as [[Yasmin Khan]], who was of [[Pakistan|Pakistani]] heritage but misidentified as Mexican. [[Police officer|Police Officer]] [[Mason (Rosa)|Mason]] searched the [[Sahara Springs Motel]] and warned the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and [[Graham O'Brien]] that it was a criminal offence to harbour a "coloured" person on segregated premises. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'') | Racial segregation was still in place by 1955, along with constant violent [[racism]]. When [[Ryan Sinclair]] attempted to hand a dropped glove back to a passerby, [[Lizzie Steele]], her [[Steele (Rosa)|husband]] ordered him to keep his "filthy black hands" off her, and alluded to the practice of lynching were he to disturb a white woman in Montgomery. Ryan was denied service at [[Slim's Bar]] for being a "[[negro]]" as well as [[Yasmin Khan]], who was of [[Pakistan|Pakistani]] heritage but misidentified as Mexican. [[Police officer|Police Officer]] [[Mason (Rosa)|Mason]] searched the [[Sahara Springs Motel]] and warned the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] and [[Graham O'Brien]] that it was a criminal offence to harbour a "coloured" person on segregated premises. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'') | ||
On [[1 December]] [[1955]], while travelling home from work, [[Civil Rights Movement|civil rights]] [[activist]] Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her bus seat when the bus became crowded, leading to her arrest, an event that the Thirteenth Doctor, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan, and Graham O'Brien witnessed. Her arrest led to the [[Montgomery Bus Boycott]], and a further chain of events that would result in the abolition of segregation [[1956|a year later]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'') | On [[1 December]] [[1955]], while travelling home from work, [[Civil Rights Movement|civil rights]] [[activist]] Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her bus seat when the bus became crowded, leading to her arrest, an event that the Thirteenth Doctor, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan, and Graham O'Brien witnessed. Her arrest led to the [[Montgomery Bus Boycott]], and a further chain of events that would result in the abolition of segregation [[1956|a year later]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'') | ||
