Tourist refuses to give up Rosa Parks' tribute seat

A British tourist refused to give up a seat on a New York City bus which was being kept unoccupied in honour of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, it was reported today.

Tourist refuses to give up Rosa Parks' tribute seat

A British tourist refused to give up a seat on a New York City bus which was being kept unoccupied in honour of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, it was reported today.

Fiona Humphreys, 55, was told she was sitting in a seat symbolically reserved for Parks to mark the 50th anniversary of her refusal to move to the back of an Alabama bus for a white man.

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