Films & Events

Set against the backdrop of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, the story traces the lives of several African-Americans who decide to boycott traveling in the public buses.

Boycott is a 2001 American made-for-television biographical drama film directed by Clark Johnson, and starring Jeffrey Wright as Martin Luther King Jr. The film, based on the book Daybreak of Freedom by Stewart Burns, tells the story of the 1955–1956 Montgomery bus boycott. Boycott won a Peabody Award in 2001 “for refusing to allow history to slip into ‘the past.'”

Director Clark Johnson will be at the screening for a discussion.

This screening is in partnership with The History Center at the University of South Carolina.

118 min.

Rated PG for thematic material and some language.