Boycott

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.

Cast

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

Aaron Neville

as Angry Neighbor

Erik Dellums

as Bayard Rustin

Erik M. Underwood

as Church Member

Brent Jennings

as Rufus Lewis

Iris Little Thomas

as Rosa Parks

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