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Rosa Parks Library and Museum: Rosa Parks Museum
Detailed information about the life of Rosa Parks as well as a page on the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: Civil Rights Movement
Article details important people, places, and events in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 1960s.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teachers: Meet Rosa Parks
Learn about the life of American civil rights activist Rosa Parks by exploring this insightful biography and timeline of her life. With activity extension for teachers.
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Curated OER
National Park Service: Names, Names, Names [Pdf]
A lesson plan for K-1 about important people in the Civil Rights movement. Requires Adobe Reader.
Black Past
Black Past: Abernathy, Ralph
In this encyclopedia entry you can read a brief account of Ralph Abernathy's part in the civil rights movement. There is a link to a website for more information.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Rosa Parks
Use this resource to learn about Rosa Parks, a freedom hero, and her courage in the face of adversity.
Social Studies for Kids
Social Studies for Kids: Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Pioneer
Learn interesting facts about Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" in America.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks started a revolution by refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Read about the Montgomery bus boycott, and see how the nonviolent actions of supporters of the Civil Rights movement succeeded in using the boycott to inspire more...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: Rosa Parks for Kids
A website containing the biography of Rosa Parks who was a civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on the bus.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Webisode 14: Let Freedom Ring
Series episode covers the civil rights movement and the struggle for equality in post-World War II America.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Montgomery Bus Boycott
[Free Registration/Login Required] After reviewing four documents, students will consider the deeper meaning behind the bus boycott while studying the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Montgomery Bus Boycott
Read about the action of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, triggering a massive bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The boycott became the impetus for a Supreme Court ruling that...
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Adah: Riding the Bus Taking a Stand
Teacher activities and primary documents that can be used when teaching the story of Rosa Parks and The Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Civil Rights for Kids: Montgomery Bus Boycott
A page exploring the history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott that started when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. Learn about how this was led by Martin Luther King, Jr., African-Americans stopped riding the buses...
US National Archives
Docsteach: A Famous Person and Event Revealed: Examining an Arrest Record
This activity requires students to examine the arrest record of an un-named person. Students will analyze and evaluate the data contained in the document, applying prior knowledge, to discern what happened in the incident and the...
Digital History
Digital History: Discrimination in Public Accommodations [Pdf]
Segregation and Jim Crow laws codified a color line in the United States. African-Americans began pushing back against segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Read about the non-violent actions taken and how these actions resulted in the...
Curated OER
Finding Dulcinea: Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks is featured in this brief biography highlighting her contributions to Civil Rights.
Other
Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Changed a Nation
This site provides information on the story of Rosa Parks, along with updates of services that she continued to perform up until her death in 2005.
Stanford University
Stanford University: Lesson Plan on the Montgomery Bus Boycott
A comprehensive five part lesson plan that teaches student how to use what happend in the famous bus boycott for both content knowledge and also how to apply to other social movements. The role of Rosa Parks is examined in detail.
Other
Montgomery Bus Boycott: They Changed the World
This very informative site provides everything about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Includes an interactive timeline, video clips, biographies of the leaders, interviews of people involved, archived newspaper articles, and an entire section...
NBC
Nbc Learn: Finishing the Dream: 1955 56: Buses and Boycotts
A collection of archival video clips covering the early days of the civil rights movement in the United States. Looks at reaction to the lynching of a teenager named Emmett Till in Chicago, Rosa Park's protest, the Montgomery Bus...
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: African American Activists
Learn about Ida B Wells, Rosa Parks, and Fannie Lou Hammer, all female African American activists who fought for justice and equality.
Curated OER
Rosa Parks, 92, Died at Her Home in Detroit Monday Night.
NPR pays a moving tribute to the "mother of the civil rights movement", Rosa Parks who died at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005. Listen to her interviews and hear in her own words her views on the 1955 bus boycott. Links to related...