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.
The world's first national park, Yellowstone National Park, was established on March 1, 1872 by President Ulysses Grant. Forty-four years later, on August 25, 1916, the National Park Service was established by Congress. Today there are fifty-eight Nationa
To access any of GORP's encyclopedic resources, you'll need to register and be at least thirteen-years old.
Whether you're looking to canoe in California or picnic in Pennsylvania, L.
The official National Park Service is my pick of the week because of the variety of its resources.
The National Parks Conservation Association's mission is to protect our national parks by educating politicians and the public about the parks' importance.
Need a little help mapping out your National Park adventure? Get inspired of one of these six preplanned road trips.
On December 1, 1955, African-American Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger. One year later, on December 20, 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court declared segregated bus seating illegal. During that year, the forty-two yea
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