The Long Walk Home is an inspirational movie that portrays the way of life leading up to the mid 1950’s and the events of the 1956 bus boycott which has altered American History for the better. Miriam Thompson and Odessa Cotter are two significant women in this film. Briefly, Miriam is white and having a white family, Odessa is the Thompson families black housekeeper. The movie starts up with the Montgomery Bus Boycott. This relates to what we learned in class in the aspect that all African Americans boycotted use of the bus. Rosa Parks initiated the bus boycott, suggesting that if all use of the public bus was diminished, that a change would be made. She certainly got her point across and this was an effective tactic that prompted a