Jamie Camil and Sofia Espinosa voice Miguel's Mama and Papa, who want their son to embrace traditional family values and eventually join the family shoemaking business. While we don't see them in the trailer, the voice cast also includes a slew of talented performers, such as Ana Ofelia Murguia as Miguel's living great-grandmother, Mama Coco, Renee Victor as Abuelita, Miguel's grandmother and the ultimate enforcer of the Rivera family's ban on music, which Miguel certainly does not approve of. We also get a glimpse at Gabriel Iglesias' character, the Head Clerk in the Land of the Dead's "Department of Family Reunions, and Octavio Solis' character, an Arrival Agent, who gets a jaw-dropping surprise when he sees Miguel. Other characters in Miguel's family include Tia Rosita (Selene Luna), Miguel's late aunt, Papa Julio (Alfonso Arau), Miguel's late great-grandfather and Tio Oscar and Tio Felipe (both voiced by Herbert Siguenza), Miguel's late identical twin uncles. While we don't see it in the trailer, Miguel eventually discovers she does not share his passion for music. Among them are Mama Imelda (Alanna Ubach), Miguel's great-great-grandmother who started the successful shoemaking business his family has become known for. Miguel learns that several characters he meets in the Land of the Dead are actually his family in this trailer. While we don't get to see Ernesto de la Cruz in this trailer, which comes courtesy of Disney Pixar, we do get to see several members of Miguel's deceased family. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector (voice of Gael García Bernal), and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself magically transported to the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Stepping in to help with both was Georgia Gilmore, a cook who fed the movement’s foot soldiers from her home and helped fund it.Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of Benjamin Bratt). That decision was upheld by the U.S Supreme Court.īecause social media didn't exist, the boycott itself was organized by Jo Ann Robinson, president of the Women’s Political Council, through a call to action on thousands of flyers.Īs the boycott continued and people risked their lives and reputations running carpools, the movement needed food and money. Intimidation from the white community prompted Reese to withdraw from the case, but judges sided with the plaintiffs that the city's segregation law had violated the Fourteenth Amendment. Gayle) claimed all five had been victims of discrimination on city buses. With Browder as the lead plaintiff, the case Browder v. While the Boycott would wait for Parks in December, Colvin and Browder were two of five plaintiffs - with Susie McDonald, Jeanetta Reese and Mary Louise Smith - in a 1956 lawsuit filed by Montgomery Improvement Association attorney Fred Gray. A month later, Aurelia Browder was arrested for the same thing. On March 2, 1955, 15-year-old pregnant Claudette Colvin was arrested for not moving from her seat on a bus. Parks' arrest sparked the boycott, but there were many others who lit the way and fought for rights during and afterward. 1, 1955, was arrested for not obeying the white bus driver’s orders to move to the back of the bus. Of course we know of the humble Montgomery seamstress, Rosa Parks, who on Dec. “We don’t talk about the women that were behind the men, who kept them strong and were their backbone and encouragement,” Brown said. Much of the boycott and general civil rights movement attention would be attributed to the works of men like the Rev. Many of them were largely unrecognized for their efforts. In Brown's own life, she sees the effects of fellow Black women who paved the way for change. Reflecting on Black women of the movement
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