{"id":82286,"date":"2018-02-11T16:09:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2018\/02\/11\/tv-one-behind-the-movement-story-montgomery-bus-boycott-airs-feb-11\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T01:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T01:51:18","slug":"tv-one-behind-the-movement-story-montgomery-bus-boycott-airs-feb-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/tv-one-behind-the-movement-story-montgomery-bus-boycott-airs-feb-11\/","title":{"rendered":"TV One’s Behind The Movement, Story On The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Airs On Feb. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

TV One’s Behind The Movement, Story On The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Airs On Feb. 11<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

February 11, 2018<\/p>\n

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Airing on February 11 at 7\/6C on TV One is their next original film, Behind The Movement<\/strong>, a fast-paced retelling of how Rosa Parks\u2019 refusal to give up her seat launched the history-making Montgomery Bus Boycott. The film will reveal the untold story of how a group of everyday people decided this incident was the right time to take a stand for their civil rights and demand equal treatment.<\/p>\n

Slated to premiere in time for Black History Month 2018, the film stars Meta Golding as Rosa Parks, Roger Guenveur Smith as Raymond Parks, Loretta Devine as JoAnn Robinson, Isaiah Washington as E.D. Nixon, Shaun Clay as Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Derek Roberts as Fred Gray<\/strong>, and Keith Bolden as Rev. Ralph Abernathy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Rosa\u2019s day as a seamstress at the Montgomery Fair Department Store, in Alabama in 1955, starts as any other, but her journey home was interrupted when the evening bus driver tells the black passengers in the first row of the \u201cNegro Section\u201d to make room for white passengers who were without seats. Though this was common practice, that evening, Mrs. Parks decides not to comply. Knowing her rights and being fed up with the treatment of black citizens, she accepts the consequences of refusing to obey an order and is arrested. That night, Mr. E.D. Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP, of which Rosa is the secretary, calls his friend Mr. Clifford Durr, a local white attorney. Once safely at home, E.D. tells Rosa that she is the perfect \u201ctest case\u201d for a Bus Boycott, an idea that had been in discussion since the bus segregation rules were continuously being abused and more and more blacks were being removed or threatened if they didn\u2019t give up their seats to white riders.<\/p>\n

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Afraid for her safety, Rosa\u2019s mother and her husband, try to talk her out of leading the boycott, but Rosa tells them that taking this stance is too important. By midnight, plans are put in motion to launch a boycott that, ultimately, would last more than a year and give rise to what is known today at the Civil Rights Movement.<\/p>\n

Behind the Movement written by Katrina M. O\u2019Gilvie<\/strong> and directed by Aric Avelino<\/strong>. The film is produced for TV One by Eric Tomosunas, Keith Neal, James Seppelfrick<\/strong> and Darien Baldwin<\/strong> for Swirl Films. For TV One, Karen Peterkin<\/strong> is Director of Scripted Original Programming and shares Executive in charge of production duties with Tia A. Smith, Sr.<\/strong> Director of Original Programming & Production. Donyell McCullough<\/strong> is Senior Director of Talent & Casting; Robyn Greene-Arrington<\/strong> is VP of Original Programming, and D\u2019Angela Proctor<\/strong> is Head of Original Programming and Production.<\/p>\n