The Rosa Parks Story

America, 1955. Her act of courage changed the world. But how it changed her life has never been told... until now.

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Drama History TV Movie

Angela Bassett

(Rosa Louise McCauley Parks)

Peter Francis James

(Raymond Parks)

Von Coulter

(E.D. Nixon)

Cicely Tyson

(Leona Edwards McCauley)

Afemo Omilami

Charles Black

(Sylvester Edwards - Rosa's Grandfather)

Sonny Shroyer

(James F. Blake)

Mike Pniewski

(Clifford Durr)

Tonea Stewart

(Johnnie Carr)

Dexter King

(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Chardé Manzy

(Young Rosa)

Nick LaTour

(Older Boycott Man)