![]() Whoopi Goldberg plays Odessa Cotter, their maid/nanny who, once the boycott begins, must walk the long miles to and from her job. Her mother Miriam is played by Sissy Spacek. She recalls her family's experiences during that pivotal time. The story is narrated by Mary Steenburgen as the now grown-up Mary Catherine Thompson. It was based on a short film made by students at the University of Southern California in 1988, and a screenplay by John Cork. This struggle touched off the Civil Rights Movement that led to the end of deplorable Jim Crow laws (that somehow still existed in the American South at that time) and made a household name of a young Baptist preacher named Martin Luther King Jr. More than 20 years before the similarly themed The Help became a surprise hit, The Long Walk Home told the story of the famous bus boycott in the city of Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Whoopi Goldberg takes The Long Walk Home. ![]()
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