The Rosa Parks Story (2002)

7.1/10 97 min Drama History TV Movie

Overview

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Cast

Angela Bassett

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks

Peter Francis James

Raymond Parks

Von Coulter

E.D. Nixon

Cicely Tyson

Leona Edwards McCauley

Afemo Omilami

Sonny Shroyer

James F. Blake

Mike Pniewski

Clifford Durr

Tonea Stewart

Johnnie Carr

Nick LaTour

Older Boycott Man

Susan Savoie

Virginia Foster Durr

Stephanie Astalos-Jones

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