Sunday, December 1, 2013

December 1 - The Rosa Parks Story

This movie has a scene that happens today – December 1. I hope you will enjoy this film and watch it tonight.  

THE ROSA PARKS STORY

After the victory in the Montgomery bus boycott Rosa Parks rides the bus and thinks back over her life. She had gone to school at the Quaker run Montgomery Industrial School. She later meets Raymond Parks, a barber and civil rights advocate. After a determined pursuit by him they are finally wed.  She works as a seamstress in a Montgomery Department Store and joins the NAACP. She tries to register to vote. On December 1, 1955 [57:37 to 1:08:53] Rosa refuses to give up her seat to a white man on the bus and gets arrested. A boycott of the bus system is organized and even though both she and her husband lose their jobs, eventually the boycott succeeds.

A good biopic. Effectively tells a political story without losing sight of the people involved. It does present a version of the story that is not exactly correct. 

Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement that Changed America by Frye Gaillard (The University of Alabama Pres, Tuscaloosa, AL, 2004) at page 6 and the film at 1:02:24 give her arrest date

Producer – Pearl Devers

Director – Julie Dash

Awards – Nominated for the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie (Bassett) at the 54th Primetime Emmy Awards

Screenplay – Paris Qualles

Runtime – 1 hour 37 minutes

Released  - February 24, 2002

Starring –

Angela Bassett as Rosa Parks
Peter Francis James as Raymond Parks
Dexter King as Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cicely Tyson as Leona McCauley
Von Coulter as E.D. Nixon




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