Boycott

Drama about the black boycott of the Alabama bus service, prompted by the incident in Birmingham, where one black woman refused to give her seat to a white man., A HBO Original movie based on the 13-month boycott of the use of bus services in Alabama after a black woman refuses to give up her seat to a white man., In 1955, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks dared to take an empty seat in the “Whites Only” section on a city bus in Montomery, AL, and sparked one of the first major battles in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, thus bringing the work of Martin Luther King to the attention of many Americans for the first time. Boycott is a made-for-TV movie that dramatizes the events of the Montomery bus boycott, weaving vintage newsreel footage with scenes depicting the public and private dramas involved in the protests. Boycott stars Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King, Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King, and Terrence Dashon Howard as Ralph Abernathy; CCH Pounder, Reg E. Cathey, and Shawn Michael Howard highlight the supporting cast., A young Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (Jeffrey Wright) organizes the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Rev. Abernathy: Terrence Howard. Coretta: Carmen Ejogo. Rosa Parks: Iris Little-Thomas. E.D. Nixon: Reg E. Cathey. Rustin: Erik Todd Dellums. Directed by Clark Johnson.