Rosa Lee Parks, whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man started the US civil rights movement in the mid 1950s, has died at the age of ninety-two. Her cause was supported by a little known Reverend, Martin Luther King Jnr. This report from Laura Trevelyan:

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Rosa Lee Parks was forty-two years old when she made [?]. She was sitting on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, one day in [?] when a white man demanded her seat. Mrs Parks refused, [?] the rules which required blacks to [?] their seats to whites. She was arrested and fined. Her treatment triggered a three hundred and eighty one day [?] of the bus [?], organised by the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior. The Montgomery bus boycott marked the birth of the civil rights movement. Seven years later, Rosa Parks [?] that momentous day:

ROSA LEE PARKS:
"The driver said that if I [?] to leave the seat, he would have to call the police and I told him just call the police, which he did and when they came, they placed me [?]."

REPORTER:
"Wasn't that a pretty [?] thing, to be arrested in Montgomery, Alabama?"

ROSA LEE PARKS:
"No, I wasn't afraid at all."

REPORTER:
"You weren't frightened, why weren't you frightened?"

ROSA LEE PARKS:
"I don't know why I wasn't, but I didn't feel afraid. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a [?] and a citizen, even in Montgomery, Alabama."

Her public stance made her a [?] of the civil rights movement, but it also made it hard for her to get work in Alabama. She and her husband, Raymond, moved to Detroit, where she worked as an [?] in a Democratic Congressman's office. Upon her [?], Mrs Parks devoted her time to an [?] she and her husband founded, aimed at developing leadership among young people. Rosa Parks will be remembered for the way her quiet [?] in the face of injustice helped change America.

Laura Trevelyan, BBC, New York