
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
Unknown
Charles Black
Sylvester Edwards - Rosa's Grandfather

Sonny Shroyer
James F. Blake

Mike Pniewski
Clifford Durr

Tonea Stewart
Johnnie Carr
Dexter King
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chardé Manzy
Young Rosa

Nick LaTour
Older Boycott Man
Helen Ingebritsen
Miss Barton

Susan Savoie
Virginia Foster Durr

Stephanie Astalos-Jones
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