Shades of History:
The Montgomery Bus Boycott/Beyond Black and White

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These links offer additional resources beyond those assigned to each Role:
Films
These films deal with subjects related to the Civil Rights Movement, many of which have associated Web sites with a variety of primary source documents and other useful materials:
Books
These books offer primary source accounts from those who participated in the Civil Rights Movement:
- Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It by Jo Ann Robinson
- Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader edited by Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding, and Darlene Clark Hine
- The Children Coming On...A Retrospective of the Montgomery Bus Boycott edited by Fred D. Gray, Willy S. Leventhal, Frank Sikora, and J. Mills Thornton, III
- Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
These books set during Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement provide a literary perspective on the times:
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
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