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.