Also, see an older list that has other related material: The Best Resources For Learning About Rosa Parks
Thanks to Teaching Tolerance, I just learned that December 4th will be the 60th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
I’m sure there will be lot of new resources becoming available in the next few weeks, and I’m also sure that there are plenty that I’m not including in the first edition of this post. Please let me know what I’m missing.
You might also be interested some of the many previous “Best” lists I’ve published on the Civil Rights Movement & race and racism, including:
The Best Websites For Learning About Martin Luther King
The Best Resources To Remember Dr. Martin Luther King’s Death (& Life)
The Best Sites For Learning About The Martin Luther King Memorial
The Best Sites To Teach About African-American History
The Best Sites To Learn About The Greensboro Sit-Ins (It’s The Fiftieth Anniversary)
The Best Places To Learn About President Obama’s Life
The Best Resources For Learning About The “Freedom Riders”
The Best Resources About The March On Washington
The Best Commentaries On The 60th Anniversary Of Brown vs. Board Of Education
The Best Resources For Teaching About Selma
The Best Resources For Learning About School Desegregation (& Segregation) – Help Me Find More
The Best Posts & Articles On The Textbook That Calls Slaves “Workers”
A Collection Of Useful Posts, Articles & Videos On Race & Racism – Help Me Find More
Here is a beginning list on Rosa Parks and The Montgomery Bus Boycott:
I’ve got to start with Teaching Tolerance’s great new resource, Beyond the Bus: Teaching the Unseen Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
10 Things You May Not Know About Rosa Parks is from The History Channel.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott looks like a pretty impressive site from the local Montgomery newspaper.
How Change Happens: The Real Story of Mrs. Rosa Parks & The Montgomery Bus Boycott is from The Huffington Post.
Rosa Parks: How I Fought for Civil Rights is from Scholastic.
Here’s a History Channel video.
This 50-year-old article shows how the myth of Rosa Parks was made https://t.co/VityUg0aJ2 pic.twitter.com/pDXcHTfAwY
— Vox (@voxdotcom) December 2, 2015
A good read: Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive- 7 Things You Probably Didn’t Learn in School @thenation https://t.co/6Kqh5rlKBO
— Pedro Noguera (@PedroANoguera) December 1, 2015
#OnThisDay in 1955 Rosa Parks ignites bus boycott https://t.co/9BUenI3SVV pic.twitter.com/9qxDBpj7jn
— Getty Images News (@GettyImagesNews) December 1, 2015
“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” – Rosa Parks, herself, on the myth she was just a random tired Black woman on the bus.
— Trudy (@thetrudz) December 1, 2015
Rosa Parks Day: The Politics of Children’s Literature: What’s Wrong with the Rosa Parks Myth https://t.co/wYxvnfemSS via @ZinnEdProject
— Mónica Callenbach (@Kinder206) December 1, 2015
No Meekness Here: Meet Rosa Parks, ‘Lifelong Freedom Fighter’ https://t.co/DKm8yj4V6y pic.twitter.com/G3fwDmh4bE
— SPLC (@splcenter) December 1, 2015
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up a bus seat, this day in 1955. Pictured: Her arrest during the Montgomery bus boycott. https://t.co/ogg7xxD6QS pic.twitter.com/Uzo7KgEkYQ
— NYT Archives (@NYTArchives) December 1, 2016
#OTD in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested. Teach 11-16s more about this crucial step for the Civil Rights Movement: https://t.co/p9JUHfhwOT pic.twitter.com/OTt7Jz0PFs
— BBC Teach (@BBC_Teach) December 1, 2016
Today in 1955: Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up seat to a white man. Explore her arrest records: https://t.co/bvs4cAmmSe
— amhistorymuseum (@amhistorymuseum) December 1, 2016
Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive—and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn’t Learn in School https://t.co/Sgw6lLjAm6 by @JeanneTheoharis
— CRMC (@CivilRightsCntr) December 1, 2016
Rosa Parks’ Birthday: 5 Things You May Not Know About Civil Rights Icon is from NBC.
This looks like a great new site on Rosa Parks.
More than a decade before Rosa Parks became famous for refusing to give up her seat on the bus, she led a national campaign against sexual assaults on black women. @DeNeenLBrown, with some history that remains sadly relevant. https://t.co/PzbtbDbxol
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) November 27, 2017
Here’s a new TED-Ed lesson and video:
The Rebellious Lives of Mrs. Rosa Parks is a good lesson plan.
The Real Rosa Parks Story Is Better Than the Fairy Tale is from The NY Times.
Before She Refused to Give Up Her Seat, Rosa Parks Had a Long History as a Voting Rights Activist is from TIME.
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. . . . No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”
– Rosa Parks
pic.twitter.com/CSLuWbiDxL— Soledad O’Brien (@soledadobrien) September 29, 2022
Please amplify: to accompany the new film The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, we created a suite of lessons for educators to teach her life, the boycott’s organizing, Parks’ challenge to Northern racism and critical thinking about master narratives: https://t.co/MTrXzEOTAr
— Jeanne Theoharis (@JeanneTheoharis) October 23, 2022
Listen to the women behind the Montgomery bus boycott tell their story in their own words.
“The bus boycott was not about sitting next to white people. It was about sitting anywhere you please" https://t.co/PF97XKbCva
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) March 23, 2023
Recent Comments