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Boycott is a 2001 American made-for-television biographical drama 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.'"
Cast
Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King Jr.
Terrence Howard as Ralph Abernathy
CCH 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
Soundtrack
The film soundtrack was issued as a 3-disc CD album on the EMI Gospel label and features recordings by Nat King Cole,
Dizzy Gillespie, Kirk Franklin and The Nu Nation, Montrel Darrett, Darwin T. Hobbs & Molly Johnson, Beverly Crawford and The Potters House Choir, the Tri-City Singers, Aaron Neville with Sweet Honey in the Rock, Lamar Campbell and The Spirit of Praise, Karen Clark, and BeBe Winans with Stevie Wonder & Mario Winans.
Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Jonathan Widran said: "This exciting, eclectic R&B-driven soundtrack to the HBO film features a mix of classic jazz performances and some of the best sounds coming out of modern pop-gospel music these days."
See also
Browder v. Gayle
Civil rights movement in popular culture
Claudette Colvin
Selma, another film starring Ejogo as Scott King
References
External links
Boycott at IMDb
Boycott at Rotten Tomatoes
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Megan Fox
- Scarlett Johansson
- Majid Majidi
- Mira Nair
- Terrence Howard
- Keluarga Rothschild
- Sylvie Tellier
- Madonna
- J.K. Rowling
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Boycott (2001 film)
- Boycott (disambiguation)
- Montgomery bus boycott
- 1977 Nestlé boycott
- Carmen Ejogo
- Boycott (1985 film)
- Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
- James Albert King
- Selma (film)
- Covington, Georgia
