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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
  • Contains an excellent and readable narrative of the boycott.

• Gray, Fred. Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System. Montgomery: Black Belt Press, 1995.
  • An account of the origins and development of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by the lawyer for Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Improvement Association.

• King, Martin Luther, Jr. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York: Harper & Row, 1958.
  • A story of the origins and course of the bus protest by the leader and spokesman of the episode.

• Parks, Rosa. Rosa Parks: My Story. New York: Dial Books, 1992.
  • Parks' autobiography, giving her version of the events leading to the boycott, and its development and results.

• Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memory of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.
  • An analysis of the bus boycott by the head of the Women's Political Council, the black women's group that sponsored the original one-day boycott.

• Internet:
  • The Alabama Department of Archives and History's web site contains several classroom activities using primary sources from the Archives' collection at http://www.archives.alabama.gov/teacher/rights/rights1.html.
  • http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm is a comprehensive website on the African American experience of segregation.