Synopsis
Martin Luther King tells the story of Rosa Parks, the ''Bus Boycott'' and how this lead to his rise a civil rights leader.
- Programme: Face to Face
- Episode: Martin Luther King
- Channel: BBC
- Broadcast year: 1961
- History | America, 1713-1975 | The development of the civil rights movement, 1954-60 | The Montgomery Bus Boycott and its impact, 1955-60
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