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Short Films by Akosua Adoma Owusu

Bus Nut

7m 19s

Directed by Akosua Adoma Owusu • 2015 • United States

BUS NUT examines the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, a political and social protest against U.S. racial segregation on the public-transit system of Montgomery, Alabama, and its relationship to an educational video on school-bus safety.

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