[Santa Monica, CA] : Distributed by Xenon Pictures, c2002.
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Notes:
- DVD, Dolby digital, stereo.
- Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James, Cicely Tyson.
- Director of photography, David Claessen edited by Wendy Hallam-Martin music, Joseph Conlan.
- Originally produced for television broadcast in 2001.
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Pioneering civil rights activist Rosa McCauley Parks. As a child, Rosa stands separate from her fellow African-Americans instead of being shipped off to a shabby public school, she is enrolled in a private classroom run by Quakers, who encourage the girl to transcend the severe limitations of legalized segregation in her home state of Alabama. In her late teens, Rosa marries barber Raymond Parks, a politically savvy and outspoken proponent of equal rights for all. For many years suffering in silence as the iniquities of the South’s Jim Crow laws consign her to second-class-citizen status, Rosa finally joins the local branch of the NAACP. Rosa’s personal struggle against institutionalized racism reaches its zenith on the night of December 1, 1955, when, bone-weary after a long day’s work as a seamstress at a Montgomery department store, she refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man — and is promptly arrested.
- Special features: Civil Rights timeline filmographies animated menus original trailer Dolby digital 5.1/stereo chapter selection and coming attractions.
Subjects:
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.
- African Americans — Alabama — Montgomery — Biography.
- Civil rights workers — Alabama — Montgomery — Biography.
- African Americans — Civil rights — Alabama — Montgomery.
- Segregation in transportation — Alabama — Montgomery — History — 20th century.
- Montgomery (Ala.) — Race relations.
- Feature films. lcgft
- Biographical films. lcgft
Requested by Maruggi, M.