This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jeffrey Wright
as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Terrence Howard
as Ralph Abernathy

CCH Pounder
as Jo Ann Robinson

Carmen Ejogo
as Coretta Scott King

Reg E. Cathey
as E.D. Nixon

Brent Jennings
as Rufus Lewis

Iris Little Thomas
as Rosa Parks

Shawn Michael Howard
as Fred Gray

Aaron Neville
as Angry Neighbor

Erik Dellums
as Bayard Rustin