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Please email us if you have any resources we can add to this section of the website. Montgomery
Bus Boycott Mythbusters Quiz (DOC) Role
Play on the Bus Boycott (PDF) Dramatization
of the Bus Boycott for First and Second Grade (PDF) BROWDER
v. GAYLE: The Women Before Rosa Parks from Teaching
Tolerance Women
and the Civil Rights Movement Montgomery Bus Boycott (DVD) Resources Books Rosa Parks (A Trophy Chapter Book) is a children's book written by Eloise Greenfield and illustrated by Gil Ashby on the life of Rosa Parks. An excerpt reads: "How could one quite woman have started it [the Civil Rights Movement] all? This is her story."
Daybreak of Freedom: The Montgomery Bus Boycott reverberates with the voices of those closest to the bus boycott, ranging from King and his inner circle, to Jo Ann Robinson and other women leaders who started the protest, to the maids, cooks, and other "foot soldiers" who carries out the struggle.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Coretta Scott King writes of this book: "This invaluable first hand account of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott, written by an important behind the scenes organizer, evokes the emotional intensity of the Civil Rights Struggle."
For
primary documents, such as the police report, fingerprint card,
and bus illustration visit the National
Archives and Records Administration. Code of the City of Montgomery Montgomery Advertiser article 12/6/55 Montgomery Advertiser article 12/9/55 "Western Union Telegram: Diamond Brothers" Montgomery Advertiser article 4/26/56 CD
This Land Is Your Land I'm
Not Getting On Until Jim Crow Gets Off (Download PDF) Rage
Is Not A 1-Day Thing! The Untaught History of the Montgomery Bus
Boycott www.civilrightsteaching.org (The official site of Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching) www.riversofchange.org "The world knows of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Mrs. Rosa Parks, but people know little about the events that propelled them to such fame and recognition. Rivers of Change: The Legacy of Five Unheralded Women in Montgomery and their Struggle for Justice and Dignity©” is about the struggles of five unknown women that were instrumental in starting and ending the Montgomery bus boycott. It is the story of women who reversed a U.S. Supreme Court decision." -- From the Rivers of Change site Introduction 381
Days: SITES Montgomery
Bus Boycott: They Changed the World Teaching
Tolerance, Freedom's Main Line Anti
Defamation League (ADL)Honors the Life and Achievements of Rosa
Parks Rosa
Parks Eulogy Transcripts
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Rosa
Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. are two most familiar faces of
the Civil Rights Movement. Students learn from pre-school through
high school that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and Martin
Luther King, Jr. had a dream. We hope the country will honor the
50th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the life of Rosa
Parks by teaching a more complete history of this watershed event.
The
disconnect between Rosa Parks' arrest and the boycott creates the
illusion that it was a spontaneous response to Rosa Park's civil
disobedience. This, however, discounts the strategic brilliance
and courage of the African American community in Montgomery. It
is critical for students to learn that 50,000 citizens had to sacrifice
everyday for over a year to sustain the boycott and change the course
of our history. Recognizing the citizens of Montgomery does not
discount the actions of the politically astute Rosa Parks, but rather
puts her in context of a greater social struggle for justice. 
She
Would Not Be Moved, by best selling author Herb Kohl, is an
updated and expanded publication on his original discussion on how
this historical event is distorted and stripped down in our classrooms.
With an introduction by Marian Wright Edelman, this book includes
a contribution by Cynthia Brown on Septima Clark, Virginia Durr,
and Rosa Parks. She Would Not Be Moved features a teacher's
guide explaining how to evaluate textbooks written for young people,
a resource guide to educational materials about Rosa Parks and the
Civil Rights Movement, and a dozen black-and-white photographs.
Voices
of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the
1950's through the 1980's. In this monumental volume, Henry
Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series
Eyes on the Prize, and Steve Fayer, series writer, draw upon nearly
one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians,
reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary
people who took part in the struggle, weaving fascinating narratives
of the Civil Rights Movement told by the people who lived it. 
Smithsonian
Institutions Traveling Exhibit: 381 Days.
