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Boycott (2001)

Black Americans boycott the public buses during the 1950s civil rights movement.

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Ralph Abernathy
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Jo Ann Robinson
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Coretta Scott King
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E.D. Nixon
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Rufus Lewis
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Rosa Parks (as Iris Little-Thomas)
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Fred Gray
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Bayard Rustin (as Erik Todd Dellums)
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Daddy King
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Reverend Banyon
Walter Franks ...
Reverend Fields
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Mayor Gayle
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Commissioner Sellars
Danny Nelson ...
Commissioner Parks
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Black Americans boycott the public buses during the 1950s civil rights movement.

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Rated PG for thematic material and some language | See all certifications »
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24 February 2001 (USA)  »

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Daybreak of Freedom  »

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Carmen Ejogo, who plays Coretta Scott King in Boycott, went on to reprise the role thirteen years later in Selma (2014). See more »

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At 1:23 into the film, the Bayard Rustin character leaves his hotel and is walking down the street where he passes an establishment titled Posley Electric Appliances TV, Stereo, Radio. This takes place in December 1955, about 3 years before stereo sets were released to the public. See more »

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Ella's Song
Written by Bernice Johnson Reagon
Performed by Aaron Neville, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Lamar Campbell and The Spirit of Praise
Courtesy of EMI Gospel
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Strong, powerful
6 March 2001 | by See all my reviews

I am white, but Dr. Martin Luther King is near the top of my list in people I respect, and have learned from. I was eight years old when he was assasinated, and I still remember it. I have been delighted with these movies that have come along lately that explain what went on in the ten years or so before I was born, until I wass old enough to remember and respect these things first hand. "Get on the Bus", "4 Little Girls", "Miss Evers Girls" all fill in parts of the struggle for civil rights in this country. Everybody, black, white, whatever, should know what this country went through in the 50's and '60's. I am very aware that there are still 2 Americas and I'd like to see it become one in my lifetime.


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