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A Guide to Materials for Rosa Parks

Compiled by Angela McMillian, Digital Reference Specialist

Mrs. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956.
Woman fingerprinted. Mrs. Rosa Parks, Negro seamstress, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus touched off the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala.
New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection. 1956.
Prints & Photographs Division.
Reproduction Number:
LC-USZ62-109643

The digital collections of the Library of Congress contain a wide variety of material related to Rosa Parks, including photographs and documents. This guide compiles links to Rosa Parks resources throughout the Library of Congress Web pages. In addition, this guide provides links to external Web sites focusing on Rosa Parks and a bibliography containing selections for both general and younger readers.

Library of Congress Web Site | External Web Sites | Selected Bibliography

American Memory Historical Collections

African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship

This exhibition showcases the incomparable African American collections of the Library of Congress. Rosa Parks's role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott is mentioned in the Civil Rights section.

America's Library

Rosa Parks was arrested for Civil Disobedience December 1, 1955

Exhibitions

“With an Even Hand”: Brown v. Board at Fifty

This exhibition includes a photograph of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted as well images of her arrest record.

Learning Page

Community Center Chats

Civil Rights

Scroll down the page to view an extensive list of Civil Rights resources as well as literature on the Civil Rights era available through the Library of Congress.

Features and Activities

From Slavery to Civil Rights: A Timeline of African-American History

This interactive activity introduces African-American history through primary sources, including an image of Rosa Parks seated on the bus.

Immigration

This feature presentation introduces teachers and students to the topic of Immigration. Rosa Parks is mentioned in the Social Revolution section of the presentation.

Lesson Plans

After Reconstruction

Students identify problems and issues facing African Americans immediately after Reconstruction using text-based sources.

From Jim Crow To Linda Brown: A Retrospective of the African-American Experience from 1897 to 1953

Students explore the era of legalized segregation. This lesson provides a foundation for a more meaningful understanding of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Prints and Photographs Division

Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)

Search PPOC for images of Rosa Parks as well as images relating to the Civil Rights era.

Today in History

January 15, 1929

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century America's most compelling and effective civil rights leader, was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia.

December 1, 1955

Rosa Parks arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring blacks to relinquish bus seats to whites.

March 7, 1965

Civil Rights demonstrators begin a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on a date now known as "Bloody Sunday."

Virtual Programs and Services

Web Guides produced by the Digital Reference Section of the Library of Congress

African American Sites in the Digital Collections

This guide highlights contributions by African Americans to the arts, education, industry, literature, politics and much more as represented in the vast online collections of the Library. Rosa Parks is included in the Post War United States section.

Civil Rights Resource Guide

This guide compiles links to civil rights resources throughout the Library of Congress Web site and beyond.

Wise Guide to loc.gov

The portal includes an article about Rosa Parks entitled "She Sat Down for What She Believed."

Link disclaimerExternal Web Sites

Academy of Achievement: Rosa Parks

The Academy of Achievement site contains a profile, biography, interview, and photo gallery for Rosa Parks.

Civil Rights Catalyst Rosa Parks Dead at 92, from the U.S. Department of State

The site contains an article about Rosa Parks and links to related items pertaining to her involvement in the Civil Rights era.

Henry Ford Museum: Rosa Parks Bus

This site includes information about Rosa Parks and the story behind the bus in which she made history.

National Public Radio: Civil Rights Icon Rosa Parks Dies

The National Public Radio (NPR) site contains a featured story about the death of Rosa Parks. The story includes links to interviews relating to Rosa Parks.

National Women's Hall of Fame: Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993.

Teaching With Documents: An Act of Courage, The Arrest Records of Rosa Parks, from the National Archives and Records Administration

The site includes lesson resources pertaining to the arrest of Rosa Parks.

Troy University: Rosa Parks Library and Museum

The site includes information about the life of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Selected Bibliography

Brinkley, Douglas. Rosa Parks. New York: Viking, 2000. [Catalog Record]

Haskins, Jim and Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks: My Story. New York: Dial Books, 1992. [Catalog Record]

Parks, Rosa and Gregory Reed. Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1994. [Catalog Record]

Siegel, Beatrice. The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. New York: Four Winds Press; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992. [Catalog Record]

Younger Readers

Baker, Courtney. Let’s Read About--Rosa Parks. New York: Scholastic/Cartwheel Books, 2004. [Catalog Record]

Banting, Erinn. Rosa Parks. New York: Weigl Publishers, 2006. [Catalog Record]

Dubowski, Cathy E. Rosa Parks: Don’t Give In! New York: Bearport Publishing, 2006. [Catalog Record]

Edwards, Pamela D. The Bus Ride That Changed History: The Story of Rosa Parks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. [Catalog Record]

Hull, Mary. Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Leader. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005. [Catalog Record]

Morris, Roz. Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. Birmingham, AL: Seacoast Publishing., 2003. [Catalog Record]

Parks, Rosa and Gregory J. Reed. Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue with Today’s Youth. New York: Lee & Low Books, 1996. [Catalog Record]

Schraff, Anne. Rosa Parks: "Tired of Giving In". Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2005. [Catalog Record]

Shores, Erika L. Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Pioneer. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2005. [Catalog Record]

Steele, Philip. Rosa Parks and Her Protest for Civil Rights. North Mankato, MN: Smart Apple Media, 2003. [Catalog Record]

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