Compiled
by Angela McMillian, Digital Reference Specialist
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
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.
Rosa
Parks was arrested for Civil Disobedience December 1, 1955
“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.
Prints
and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC)
Search PPOC using the subject heading Parks, Rosa,--1913-2005 to find digital images related to Parks.
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.
Segregation: From Jim Crow to Linda Brown
Students explore the era of legalized segregation. This
lesson provides a foundation for a more meaningful understanding
of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Themed Resources
Civil
Rights
Explore the fight for voting rights as well as the racial history of the United States in sports and schools. Study maps, baseball cards and political cartoons as well as pamphlets, legal documents, poetry, music, and the personal correspondence and oral histories of the famous and the ordinary.
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."
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.
The portal includes an article about Rosa Parks entitled
"She
Sat Down for What She Believed."
Academy
of Achievement: Rosa Parks
The Academy of Achievement site contains a profile,
biography, interview, and photo gallery for Rosa Parks.
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.
Wayne State University, Walter P. Reuther Library
Access the finding aid for the Rosa L. Parks Papers, 1955-1976 in the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs.
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]
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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