Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King.
Sissy Spacek
as Miriam Thompson
Whoopi Goldberg
as Odessa Cotter
Dwight Schultz
as Norman Thompson
Ving Rhames
as Herbert Cotter
Dylan Baker
as Tunker Thompson
Erika Alexander
as Selma Cotter
Lexi Randall
as Mary Catherine
Richard Habersham
as Theodore Cotter
Jason Weaver
as Franklin Cotter
Crystal Robbins
as Sara Thompson
Cherene Snow
as Claudia
Chelcie Ross
as Martin
