Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.

Sissy Spacek
as Miriam Thompson

Whoopi Goldberg
as Odessa Cotter

Dwight Schultz
as Norman Thompson

Ving Rhames
as Herbert Cotter

Dylan Baker
as Tunker Thompson

Erika Alexander
as Selma Cotter

Lexi Randall
as Mary Catherine

Richard Habersham
as Theodore Cotter

Jason Weaver
as Franklin Cotter

Crystal Robbins
as Sara Thompson