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The Long Walk Home

Name: The Long Walk Home
Director: Richard Pearce
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 1990-12-21
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker

DramaHistory

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.

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Cast

Sissy SpacekWhoopi GoldbergDwight SchultzVing RhamesDylan BakerErika AlexanderLexi RandallRichard HabershamJason WeaverCrystal RobbinsCherene SnowChelcie Ross

Director

Richard Pearce

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