We've rescheduled our community film screening of "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks." Students, families, educators and community members are invited to attend this free screening of the film. The event will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, March 20 at our Washington Service Center in Hillsboro. A question-and-answer session will follow the screening. 

Register to attend. 

Food and drinks will be provided. Free child care is available upon request. Captions will also be provided. If you need to additional accommodations to attend or would like to request child care, please email Janet Bucio at least 5 days before the event. 

Download the promotional flyer about this community event. 

About the Film

The film is based on the bestselling biography by Jeanne Theoharis, executive produced by award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien, and directed by Johanna Hamilton and Yoruba Richen. The film chronicles Parks’ childhood, her activism before and during the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott, her work for Congressman John Conyers in Detroit, and her involvement in causes such as voting rights, anti-apartheid, reparations, fair housing, women’s rights and the fight against police violence.

The documentary includes interviews with Jeanne Theoharis, Barbara Smith, Robin D. G. Kelley, Francis Gourrier, Keisha N. Blain, Mary Frances Berry, Ericka Huggins, Bryan Stevenson, Patrice Cullors, Rev. JoAnn Watson, Dan Aldridge, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, Frank Joyce and more. Also included are recorded interviews from Eyes on the Prize with Jo Ann Robinson.

Learn about the film and see clips in this Democracy Now! program with Jeanne Theoharis and Yoruba Richen. Download a teaching guide from the Zinn Education Project.

If you are an educator interested in screening this film with your students, please email Jodi LePla, instructional technology specialist. 

Thanks to the Zinn Education Project, Soledad O’Brien Productions and The Ford Foundation for supporting access to this film.