The Rosa Parks Story

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

Cast

Angela Bassett

as Rosa Louise McCauley Parks

Peter Francis James

as Raymond Parks

Tonea Stewart

as Johnnie Carr

Von Coulter

as E.D. Nixon

Dexter King

as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Afemo Omilami

as Minister

Sonny Shroyer

as James F. Blake

Mike Pniewski

as Clifford Durr

Chardé Manzy

as Young Rosa

Cicely Tyson

as Leona Edwards McCauley

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