A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Acting
Bassett's stillness hits harder than any speech ever could.
Direction
Dash frames domestic spaces as political battlegrounds.
Costume
Every seamstress stitch carries the weight of respectability politics.
Director
Julie Dash
Angela Bassett
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
Peter Francis James
Raymond Parks
Von Coulter
E.D. Nixon
Cicely Tyson
Leona Edwards McCauley
Afemo Omilami
Sonny Shroyer
James F. Blake
Mike Pniewski
Clifford Durr
Tonea Stewart
Johnnie Carr
Nick LaTour
Older Boycott Man
Susan Savoie
Virginia Foster Durr
Stephanie Astalos-Jones
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