Paul Hosford: Rosa Parks and Nazis – why words used in the Dáil matter 

The horrors of the Holocaust and racism and inequality in the US, used as examples by our politicians, happened to real people and their after-effects are still being dealt with

Civil rights veteran Rosa Parks. Picture: Taro Yamasaki//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images

When Rosa Parks refused to move seats on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955, she struck a defining blow in the civil rights movement in the US.

But what many fail to see is that Ms Parks' actions did not solve the issues of suffrage, of equality or of racism. What followed the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a decade of violence, protest and, in too many cases, murder of black Americans.