Movie Screening: Boycott June 8, 2007

Plot Summary:
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When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her
seat on the bus to a white man, the Reverend Martin Luther King was
but a modest young Baptist minister suddenly thrust into the
leadership of local bus boycott. What started as a one-day protest of
unfair bus laws turned into the 381-day boycott that gave birth to the
civil rights movement. This riveting, rousing made-for-cable drama
meticulously recounts the challenges the protest faced. Jeffrey Wright
(Basquiat) is excellent as King, capturing his charisma and rousing
speeches while grounding his heroism in human vulnerability and
fear, but Boycott reminds us that he was only one of the thousands of
ordinary people roused into extraordinary action in the name of
equality and social justice. That portrait of everyday heroes changing
the course of history remains the film's most rousing message.

Notes:
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Runtime: 118 min
Suggested Donation: $5
(No one will be turned away because of lack of funds)

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