Rosa Parks was a seamstress from the town of Montgomery, Alabama, who in 1955 was targeted by a racist criminal from the future. Krasko intended to change history by ensuring that Rosa's protest against racial segregation on the town's bus services did not take place. The subsequent bus boycott resulting from her arrest was a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights movement.
The Doctor and her companions had to sabotage Krasko's efforts and ensure that history was allowed to run its course, without alerting Rosa to what was going on.
She numbered Martin Luther King among her friends.
By riding the bus on the fateful evening - 1st December - to ensure her safety, Graham O'Brien inadvertently helped trigger events. It was for him that Rosa was expected to give up her seat. On refusing to do so she was arrested, and history remained on track.
Played by: Vinette Robinson. Appearances: Rosa (2018)
- Robinson had previously played doomed medic Abi Lerner in 2007's 42.
- Parks (1913 - 2005) was given the Congressional Gold Medal by President Clinton in 1999 in recognition of her work in advancing the rights of black people in the USA. She had been active in the cause since 1943. After her arrest, she and her husband had found themselves unemployed and so moved to Detroit in 1957, where she remained active in civil rights and anti-apartheid work.
- She has a railway station in Paris named after her, and the Doctor tells her companions that she has also given her name to an asteroid.
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