This page is part of a resource collection on Black Freedom Struggle history.
Documentaries
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
Primary Sources
CRMvet.org: Montgomery Bus Boycott & Rosa Parks Resources.
Books
Fred Gray: Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System, the Life and Works of Fred Gray.
Wayne Greenhaw & Donnie Williams: The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow.
Phillip Hoose: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice.
Martin Luther King: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.
Rosa Parks: My Story.
Jo Ann Robinson: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It.
Jeanne Theoharis: The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
Children’s Books
Russell Freedman: Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Nikki Giovanni & Bryan Collier: Rosa.
Phillip Hoose: Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice.
Dee Romito & Laura Freeman: Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Articles
Lucien Baskin: The Life and Activism of Rosa Parks: A CBFS Interview.
Say Burgin: Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heard.
Lynn Burnett: The Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Full Story. (Listen here.)
Katharina Fackler: Rosa Parks and the Image of Respectability.
Jacqui Germain: Montgomery Bus Boycott: What Happened and When Was It?
Jessica Gingrich: The Underground Kitchen That Funded the Civil Rights Movement: Georgia Gilmore’s cooking fueled the Montgomery bus boycott.
Roni Jacobson: Claudette Colvin Explains Her Role in the Civil Rights Movement.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture:Recy Taylor, Rosa Parks, and the Struggle for Racial Justice.
NPR: She refused to move bus seats months before Rosa Parks. At 82, her arrest is expunged.
Stanford’s MLK Institute:
Jeanne Theoharis:
- Rosa Parks Was a Radical.
- The Real Rosa Parks Story Is Better Than the Fairy Tale.
- Five ways to be like Rosa Parks in the age of Black Lives Matter.
- Rosa Parks: What to Know About the Lifelong Activist and Civil Rights Icon.
- Get Reintroduced to Rosa Parks as a New Archive Reveals the Woman Behind the Boycott.
Jeanne Theoharis & Say Burgin: Pitting Rosa Parks against Claudette Colvin distorts history: A new documentary explores the origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott — with lessons on how we see movements.
Podcasts
Code Switch: The Women Behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Food History & Culture: Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement.
Hidden Kitchens: The Kitchen Sisters: The Club From Nowhere: Cooking for Civil Rights.
Radio Diaries: Claudette Colvin: “History Had Me Glued To The Seat”.
For Teachers
Learning for Justice: Bus Boycott: Historical Documents Highlight Integration Milestone.
The Stanford History Education Group: Primary Source Activity on the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Jeanne Theoharis: Rosa Park’s biographer offers resources for teaching about Rosa Parks.
The Zinn Education Project: