Rosa Parks Story

Rosa Parks Story


Starring:Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James, Tonea Stewart, Von Coulter, Dexter King, Cicely Tyson, Chardé Manzy, Stephanie Astalos-Jones, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rosa Parks, Sonny Shroyer, Ron Clinton Smith, Susan McConnell, Nick LaTour, Slayton Jefferson Underwood, Bill Clinton, George Caldwell, Carl Pittman
Director: Julie Dash
Studio: Xenon
Product Type: DVD
The Rosa Parks Story
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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The Rosa Parks Story
Starring: Angela Bassett , Peter Francis James , Tonea Stewart , Von Coulter , and Dexter King
Director: Julie Dash
Manufacturer: Xenon
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00006LPHJ
Release Date: 2003-01-21

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Good concept of self discipline and power of choice.......2007-05-09

You never know what you are capable of doing until you do it. If you feel it is wrong have courage to make the wrong right in peace. A tale of inspirational courage. The world around us is awaiting all those who know are courageous enough to make a step to uniting man with his higher self.

5 out of 5 stars Good.......2007-01-10

This DVD arrived in super fast time and it is in perfect condition. I highly recommend this seller.!! Thanks....

5 out of 5 stars Something to Share.......2006-07-05

Besides the history of the bus incident, I didn't know much about Rosa Parks. This story delves into how the conflict between Rosa fighting with the NAACP affected her family. Although some may find it to be a borderline story about relationships, I liked the story for that exact reason. It gave me a different view of how to look at a political situation that can hinder the people around you (for example, job loss, physical danger, voting rights). The focus of the story was on how Rosa Parks grew up not being able to understand the tactics of Jim Crow laws. Because her mother was just as strong as she, and her husband was initially a fighter as well, even someone who was unfamiliar with her would understand how she became so politically active.
Instead of creating the book in a documentary, it was entertaining, sometimes romantic, political, controversial, and informative all wrapped into one movie. Angela Bassett was a great choice to play Rosa Parks and I loved Peter Francis James as her husband, Raymond Parks. This was the first time I'd seen this actor in anything and it made me want to become more familiar with his projects.
Overall, great job. A friend of mine said that too many parts were left out about how Rosa Parks dealt with poverty later on, and I would surely like to see another movie go into the next segment of her life. Had it been in this one, it might've dragged on, but I would've enjoyed seeing that in the extras. The extras were rather disappointing--things like timelines are something I can find in an African American dominated textbook (they tend to be more accurate than the biased books that the Board of Education enforces). I would've liked to have seen actual interviews with Rosa Parks or how the actors were affected by doing a movie on this icon.
From the segments I got, it does make me want to move on and read more about her though.

4 out of 5 stars Something to Share.......2006-07-03

Besides the history of the bus incident, I didn't know much about Rosa Parks. This story delves into how the conflict between Rosa fighting with the NAACP affected her family. Although some may find it to be a borderline story about relationships, I liked the story for that exact reason. It gave me a different view of how to look at a political situation that can hinder the people around you (for example, job loss, physical danger, voting rights). The focus of the story was on how Rosa Parks grew up not being able to understand the tactics of Jim Crow laws. Because her mother was just as strong as she, and her husband was initially a fighter as well, even someone who was unfamiliar with her would understand how she became so politically active.
Instead of creating the book in a documentary, it was entertaining, sometimes romantic, political, controversial, and informative all wrapped into one movie. Angela Bassett was a great choice to play Rosa Parks and I loved Peter Francis James as her husband, Raymond Parks. This was the first time I'd seen this actor in anything and it made me want to become more familiar with his projects.
Overall, great job. A friend of mine said that too many parts were left out about how Rosa Parks dealt with poverty later on, and I would surely like to see another movie go into the next segment of her life. Had it been in this one, it might've dragged on, but I would've enjoyed seeing that in the extras. The extras were rather disappointing--things like timelines are something I can find in an African American dominated textbook (they tend to be more accurate than the biased books that the Board of Education enforces). I would've liked to have seen actual interviews with Rosa Parks or how the actors were affected by doing a movie on this icon.
From the segments I got, it does make me want to move on and read more about her though.

5 out of 5 stars Thank You, Rosa Parks! .......2006-05-21

When I was a little girl, I lived not far from where the Watt's Riots where happening and I remember how people was afraid. But I also, have to think about people like Rosa Parks who was courageous enough to stand and defy the racist system towards Black people in the South. It was people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. that brought a light to a situation that needed to be addressed even in the time they lived what had been going on far to long and should never had happened in the first place.

While, I did not know much about Rosa's childhood, what was shown and happened too much especially in the southern United States was a common occurrence. I still remember about 1972, traveling from Oregon to Georgia my family stopped to eat at a roadside caf; as we was seated at a table not far from the door a very well dressed black man came in to eat and the proprietor of the cafe insulted him by telling him he had to eat off the kitchen door in the back. My family got up after the nice black man left, we wouldn't eat their either because of what the proprietor did.

America today still has racism and it has given the country nothing but a large black mark that many in the world sees as nothing but a counter point of absolute resentment for their mistreatments of their fellow citizens or guests in their country.

Racism should never be, but the courage of people like Rosa Parks is a beacon to what American still need's, equality for all!

Of Civil Wrongs and Rights - The Fred Korematsu Story
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    		Of Civil Wrongs and Rights - The Fred Korematsu Story
    Starring: Fred Korematsu , Rosa Parks , and Bill Clinton
    Director: Eric Paul Fournier
    Manufacturer: Docurama
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    Release Date: 2007-03-27

    Description

    In 1942, Fred Korematsu was an average 23-year-old California native working as a shipyard welder. But when he refused to obey Executive Order 9006, which sent 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into internment camps, he became something extraordinary--a civil rights champion. Award-winning director Eric Paul Fournier follows Korematsu's story from the moment he first resisted confinement to the hard-won victory he finally achieved 39 years later, with the help of a new generation of Japanese-American activists seeking vindication and the assurance that such a terrible injustice would never occur again.

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