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Books
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years,
1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: A Lipper/Viking
Book, 2000.
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High School-Adult Reading |
Garrow, David J., ed., The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the
Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.
Grey, Fred. Bus Ride to Freedom. Montgomery: Black Belt
Press, 1995.
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Adult reading by the lawyer who defended
Rosa Parks in Montgomery |
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Stride Toward Freedom. New York:
Harper and Brothers, 1958.
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King’s first-person account of
the boycott and the rise of non-violent resistance |
Kudlinski, Kathleen. Rosa Parks: Young Rebel. New York:
Aladdin Paperbacks, 2001.
Olson, Lynne. Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines
of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1979. New York: A
Touchstone Book/Simon and Schuster, 2001.
Parks, Rosa. Rosa Parks: My Story. New York: Puffin Books,
1992.
Parks, Rosa. Quiet Strength. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing,
1994.
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The faith, the hope and the heart of
a woman who changed a nation |
Ringgold, Faith. If This Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa
Parks. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
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Juvenile Reading, Picture Book |
Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights
Years, 1954-1965. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.
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High School-Adult Reading |
Wilson, Camilla. Rosa Parks: From the Back of the Bus to the
Front of the Movement. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2001.
On the Web
www.thehenryford.org
See the museum’s “Pic of the Month,” February
2002, for more information
www.rosaparksinstitute.org
For information on the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self
Development
e-portals.org/Parks
A portal that provides links to many web sites dealing with Rosa
Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
montgomery.troy.edu/museum
A direct link to the Rosa Parks Library and Museum at Troy State
University, Montgomery
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