This illustrated article from USHistory.org explains Rosa Parks' role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and introduces Martin Luther King, Jr. (who was at that time a "little-known minister"), and his colleague Ralph Abernathy.
Learn more about the boycott and its place in the civil rights movement in this online special published by the Montgomery Advertiser newspaper.
For high-school and college students, this encyclopedia article from King Research and Education Institute offers hyperlinks to related articles, a complete bibliography for offline research, and a gallery of primary source documents.
Kids for King is an educational initiative created by the Martin Luther King, Jr National Memorial. This particular article for high school students presents an overview of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, followed by discussion questions.
Surfnetkids.com recommends five websites about the Montgomery bus boycott.
Introduction [The Dirksen Congressional Center]
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision supporting school integration, the Little Rock, Arkansas School Board agreed to integrate by the 1957/1958 school year.
"In 1957, nine brave, black students pioneered a path for thousands of future scholars in the halls of this great school. September 25, 2007, will mark the 50th anniversary of the integration of Central High."
The Encyclopedia of Arkansas has an excellent, illustrated article on the Little Rock Nine, with links to additional articles on the desegregation of Central High, Arkansas governor Orval Faubus, and the Lost Year.
Although it was written ten years ago to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of " One of America's Most Important Civil Rights Events," the site is still valuable today.
PBSKids presents a single-page overview of school desegregation and the civil rights movement of the fifties.
Lisa Cozzens was a Brown University undergraduate when she started this Black History website in 1998.
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