Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
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| Original title | Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 46 minutes |
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| Director | Robert Houston |
| script | Robert Houston |
| production |
Bill Couturié , Dulanie M. Ellis , Robert Hudson |
| music | Kevin Saunders Hayes |
| camera | Geoffrey George |
| cut | Nancy Barber |
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Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks is an American short - documentary from 2002 by Robert Houston . The Southern Poverty Law Center's production covers Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott .
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The film deals with Rosa Park's role in the bus boycott. First, he describes an incident that preceded it, in which Rosa Parks was forced to get in the back, although she had already paid up front. Contemporary witnesses then report on the situation in Montgomery and Alabama as well as on Rosa Park's family. The following is a description of the arrest and the subsequent bus boycott.
In addition to archive recordings of Rosa Parks, the activist ED Nixon and Martin Luther King , contemporary witnesses and young school children also have their say.
background
The film was funded by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It was also published in 2003 as part of a learning box aimed at middle and high school children. Together with other materials, it is supposed to bring the Montgomery bus boycott to life.
The film was nominated for Best Documentary Short at the Academy Awards in 2002 , but lost to Twin Towers . In 2005 the film won a Daytime Emmy in the Children / Youth / Family Special category after it aired on HBO .
Web links
- Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks | UC Berkeley Library. Retrieved February 2, 2020 .
- ↑ a b SPLC Film Nominated for Emmy. Southern Poverty Law Center , March 2, 2005, accessed February 2, 2020 .