Resting Place 1986

A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.

Cast:

John Lithgow
Maj. Kendall Laird 

Morgan Freeman
Luther Johnson 

CCH Pounder
Ada Johnson 

Frances Sternhagen
Eudora McCallister