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

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Links

These links offer additional resources beyond those assigned to each Role:

• Remembering Rosa Parks from PBS Online News Hour
• Recalling the Life of Rosa Parks from NPR
• Unsung Heroes of the Montgomery Bus Boycott from NPR
• Boycott from Time Magazine/HBO
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott from PBS American Experience: Eyes on the Prize
• BUS BOYCOTT: Historical Documents Highlight Integration Milestone from Tolerance.org
• Montgomery Bus Boycott from The Martin Luther King Jr. Online Encyclopedia
• They Changed the World: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott from the Montgomery Advertiser
• The History of Jim Crow a collaboration supported by New York Life
• Voices of Civil Rights from the AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress
• The Civil Rights Era from Columbia University's Amistad Digital Resource
• Remembering Jim Crow from American RadioWorks
• Emmett Till and the Impact of Images from NPR
• Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History
• Brown v. Board of Education from PBS
• "With an Even Hand" Brown v. Board at Fifty from the Library of Congress
• African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship from the Library of Congress
• Reporting Civil Rights from The Library of America
• Civil Rights History from CBS News
• How Race Is Lived in America from The New York Times
• African American World: Race & Society from PBS
• Choosing to Participate from Facing History and Ourselves
• Save our History: Voices of Civil Rights from The History Channel
• Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement from the National Park Service
• National Visionary Leadership Project's Oral History Archive
• Civil Rights Movement Veterans
• BlackPast.org Online Encyclopedia
• Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching

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:

• The Rosa Parks Story - A film by Julie Dash starring Angela Bassett in the lead role
• The Long Walk Home - A feature film that tells the story of two women and their relationship during the Montgomery Bus Boycott starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek
• Boycott - An HBO movie about the Montgomery Bus Boycott with a focus on Martin Luther King, Jr. and his role
• 4 Little Girls - A Spike Lee documentary film about the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, AL
• Eyes on the Prize - An acclaimed documentary series about the Civil Rights Movement produced by Blackside, Inc. and broadcast on PBS
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow - A PBS miniseries
• Scottsboro: An American Tragedy - A PBS American Experience film
• The Murder of Emmett Till - A PBS American Experience film

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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