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Civil Rights Movies

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  • Mississippi Burning
  • Ghosts of Mississippi
  • Boycott
  • The Rosa Parks Story
  • The Long Walk Home
  • The Ernest Green Story
  • The Ruby Bridges Story
  • The Help
  • The Secret Lives Of Bees
  • Something The Lord Made
  • Talk To Me
  • Glory Road
  • When We Were Colored
  • A Raisin In The Sun
  • King
  • Malcolm X
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • To Kill A Mockingbird

Boycott

Jeffrey Wright played Martin Luther King Jr. in Boycott, an HBO miniseries about the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. The film was directed by The Wire's Clark Johnson and also starred Terrence Howard as civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy.

(Photo: HBO Films)