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Boycott (2001 film)

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Director
  
Clark Johnson

Music director
  
Joseph Vitarelli

Country
  
United States

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Genre
  
Drama

Duration
  

Language
  
English

Boycott (2001 film) movie poster

Release date
  
24 February 2001

Writer
  
Stewart Burns (book), Herman Daniel Farrell (teleplay), Timothy J. Sexton (teleplay)

Nominations
  
Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film

Cast
  
Jeffrey Wright
(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.),
Terrence Howard
(Ralph Abernathy),
CCH Pounder
(Jo Ann Robinson),
Carmen Ejogo
(Coretta Scott King),
Reg E. Cathey
(E.D. Nixon),
Brent Jennings
(Rufus Lewis)

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,
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,
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Tagline
  
The Story of Martin Luther King and One Act of Defiance That Changed a Nation

Boycott is a 2001 American television film directed by Clark Johnson, and starring Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King Jr. The film, based on the book Daybreak of Freedom by Stewart Burns, tells the story of the 1955-1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott. It won a Peabody Award in 2001 "for refusing to allow history to slip into 'the past.'"

Contents

The montgomery bus boycott movie trailer


Cast

  • Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Terrence Howard as Ralph Abernathy
  • C. C. H. Pounder as Jo Ann Robinson
  • Carmen Ejogo as Coretta Scott King
  • Reg E. Cathey as E. D. Nixon
  • Brent Jennings as Rufus Lewis
  • Iris Little Thomas as Rosa Parks
  • Shawn Michael Howard as Fred Gray
  • Erik Dellums as Bayard Rustin
  • References

    Boycott (2001 film) Wikipedia
    Boycott (2001 film) IMDb Boycott (2001 film) themoviedb.org