Publisher:
Santa Monica, Calif. : Xenon Pictures, c2002
ISBN:
9781578297443
1578297443
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Additional Contributors:
Sacani, Christine
Steele, Elaine Eason
Devers, Pearl
Qualles, Paris
Dash, Julie
Bassett, Angela
James, Peter Francis
Tyson, Cicely
Claessen, David 1959-
Hallam-Martin, Wendy
Conlan, Joseph
Cheng, Mayling
Jaffe/Braunstein Films Ltd. (Firm)
CBS Television Network
Xenon Pictures
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Should be part of the Library's Black History display every year. Well-done storytelling of how Rosa Parks was an experienced NAACP organizer who was in the right place, at the right time, with the right kind of courage, for advancing civil rights. To her great good fortune, she married an equal, and their courtship is a nice part of the tale. The movie doesn't shirk the hardships involved; along with some vintage news scenes, their own harassment and job loss is sensitively told. Cicely Tyson, now in her 90s, does a wonderful turn as Rosa's mom.
I would like to borrow this dvd to show to a group of elderly residents where I work. Could we get it from the Outreach Library on their next trip to The Heights at Columbia Knoll?
Angela Basset is a very good actress. This film showed what Rosa Parks went through in her personal struggles when it came to discrimination and prejudice. It was a powerful story about what happened when blacks were denied the same right everyone else had. Doesn't it make you wonder the hypocrisy of man when the constitution said one thing and they went by another. Inalienable rights?