The Rosa Parks Story

Dexter King, the third-born child of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, plays his own father in this movie. This is the second TV movie about the Civil Rights movement that depicts MLK and that has one of his children paying a role in it; the first was 1999's Selma, Lord, Selma, in which the Kings' first-born child, Yolanda King, played a small role (Martin Luther King was depicted in that film by Clifton Powell).

Contrary to the events portrayed in the film, in "Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle" (1982), E.D. Nixon states the bus boycott was his idea and that of all the ministers he contacted for support, Martin Luther King was the only one who was reluctant to support a bus boycott. When Nixon called King back and pointed out that he would be the only minister not supporting the boycott and that a meeting about it would be held in his church, King finally agreed to support the boycott.

Featured in The 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2002)