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A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
- 8 wins & 8 nominations total
Dexter King
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- (as Dexter Scott King)
Chardé Manzy
- Young Rosa
- (as Charde' Manzy)
Susan Savoie
- Virginia Foster Durr
- (as Susan Williams)
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- TriviaDexter 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).
- GoofsContrary 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.
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Rosa Louise McCauley Parks: Why do you always push us around?
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2002)
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I just got through watching this movie, and I must say that I was quite surprised. Angela Bassett was wonderful as MRS Parks, and so was Cicely Tyson, who played her mother. If you don't do anything else for Black History Month, please watch this movie, it's well worth it!
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