Background:
“The Long Walk Home” is set in Montgomery, Alabama, United States during the Civil Rights movement. One of the events that was very instrumental during the civil rights movement was the “Montgomery Bus Boycott”. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest against racial segregation on the public transit system in Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person on December 20, 1956. Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Plot:
The film features Odessa Cotter, an African-American maid, employed by a well-to-do white woman, Miriam Thompson, during the Montgomery Bus boycott. Odessa and her family are faced with all of the social problems typical of African Americans at the time: poverty, racism, violence, and discrimination.
When a boycott of the city buses prevents Odessa from riding the bus to work, she is left with no other choice but to walk. Mrs. Thompson, offers to give her a ride. However, as the boycott progresses, tensions in the family, community and across the nation rise.
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“The Long Walk Home” is set in Montgomery, Alabama, United States during the Civil Rights movement. One of the events that was very instrumental during the civil rights movement was the “Montgomery Bus Boycott”. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest against racial segregation on the public transit system in Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person on December 20, 1956. Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Plot:
The film features Odessa Cotter, an African-American maid, employed by a well-to-do white woman, Miriam Thompson, during the Montgomery Bus boycott. Odessa and her family are faced with all of the social problems typical of African Americans at the time: poverty, racism, violence, and discrimination.
When a boycott of the city buses prevents Odessa from riding the bus to work, she is left with no other choice but to walk. Mrs. Thompson, offers to give her a ride. However, as the boycott progresses, tensions in the family, community and across the nation rise.
edit.