| ROSAPARKS | Whose refusal in 1955 to give up her bus seat to a white passenger galvanised America's civil rights revolution? (4,5) |
| PARKS | Rosa, U.S. civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 helped to inspire desegregation (5) |
| ROSA | ___ Parks, African American civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger in December 1955 (4) |
| CLAUDETTE | ___ Colvin, civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus nine months before Rosa Parks |
| SEAT | While riding a bus in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested because she wouldn't give hers up to a white man |
| BUSBOYCOTT | This was started in Montgomery when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat: 2 wds. |
| SUBROSA | First woman to refuse to give up her seat on the Nautilus? |
| ELECT | Give a seat to a clean sitter getting rid of a strain (5) |
| CANNELLONI | From "pipe, reed, stem" and with a similar name to a white haricot bean, a variety of tubular pasta; or, a dish of said rolls stuffed with minced beef and cheese or ricotta and spinach (10) |
| BLACKBELT | An expert in judo would attain this level (and then work her way on to a white one again) |
| SLAP | Sidney Poitier would do it to a white man in, In The Heat of the Night. |
| PRODIGAL | Keep up Rod. I galvanised him in to being a bit wasteful (8) |
| DOLLY | Historically, a wooden utensil for stirring clothes in a galvanised zinc wash tub; or, linked with "corn" for a figure made from plaited straw (5) |
| TOGA | Characters in photo galvanised by what outfitters in Rome produced a long time ago (4) |
| STOOD | Offered a seat to a lady |
| STAR | Name given to a white patch on the forehead of a horse (4) |
| MILKY | Similar in appearance to a white dairy beverage |
| TEASE | Ridicule new seat, to a point |
| EAZYE | Late rapper invited to a White House luncheon by George H.W. Bush |
| SNOW | It's basic to a white Christmas (4) |
