Boycott [videorecording] / HBO Films ; directed by Clark Johnson ; screenplay by Herman Daniel Farrell III and Timothy J. Sexton ; executive producer, Norman Twain, Shelby Stone ; produced by Preston Holmes ; a Norman Twain production in association with Shelby Stone Productions ; director of photography, David Hennings.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Widescreen (16:9) format.
Publisher:
HBO Home Video,
Copyright Date:
c2001
Description:
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard, C.C.H. Pounder, Carmen Ejogo, Reg E. Cathey, Brent Jennings, Shawn Michael Howard, Iris Little-Thomas, Erik Todd Dellums, Mike Hodge. Originally produced as a television motion picture in 2001. Based on the book : Daybreak of freedom / by Stewart Burns. Special features: Director's commentary (Clark Johnson); Featurette; Cast & director bios (Wright, Howard, Ejogo, Johnson); Historical background notes : "Milestones in civil rights history" (timeline), Verbatim- "Spreading the word" (quotes from civil rights figures), "Boycott by the numbers" (comparison index), "Time capsule: back with humility" (Time magazine article, 1956), "Q & A with Stewart Burns and Henry Gates Jr.", "Who's who- the leaders" (Leaders of the Montgomery Bus Boycott); References : "Books" (suggested reading), "Video/Multimedia" (suggested viewing); web links.
Summary:
In the winter of 1955 in the deep south, Rosa Parks, a single black woman on a public bus, is arrested when she chooses a "whites only" seat. Her action and the reaction of the authorities helps birth the modern civil rights movement in the United States, and makes her an inspiring icon and lodestone to all involved with the struggle for equality, including a young Martin Luther King.
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