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Posted on January 16, 2015January 16, 2015

The Rosa Parks Story (2002)

When Rosa Parks, sec. of the local NAACP, refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man, her arrest galvanizes Montgomery’s blacks, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to boycott the buses.

Posted on August 21, 2014August 21, 2015

The Vernon Johns Story (1994)

Before MLK was pastor at the Dexter Ave. Baptist Ch. there was an even more fiery preacher who prepared the way for him, Vernon Johns, a champion of justice.

Posted on January 16, 2014January 19, 2015

Boycott (2001)

The story of Dr. Luther King and the many brave men & women who engaged in the Montgomery Bus Boycott is told in great detail.

Posted on January 16, 2014February 14, 2020

The LONG WALK HOME (1990)

The impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is depicted through the experience of Odessa, a maid who works across town for a white family. Her influence on the wife upends her employers’ family.

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