Explores the life of Rosa Parks, an ordinary woman who became a driving force in the Civil Rights Movement when she helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Profiles the civil rights leader famous for her refusal to give up a seat on the bus, which led to her arrest and the eventual overturning of the "Jim Crow" laws in the South by order of the Supreme Court.
A brief history of the civil rights movement in America, Rosa Parks' role in helping to abolition segregation on the busses, the March on Washington, Freedom Riders, and civil rights laws.
Biography of the woman who, in December of 1955, refused to relinquish her seat to a white man, which ultimately led to a landmark Supreme Court decision.
Homer Plessy and the supreme court decision that legalized racism
Fireside, Harvey
2005
In 1892 African-American Homer A. Plessy is involved in an event of civil disobedience, but the United States Supreme Court approved segregation laws as part of life in the South and his case before it lost.
Dramatizes Rosa Parks' famous refusal to move out of her seat on a segregated bus in 1955 as well as aspects of her early life, her involvement with the NAACP, and the aftermath of that act of resistance.
Presents an account of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, and the subsequent bus boycott by the African-American community.
