Rosa Parks: 1913-2005

"From the moment her photograph was first published in newspapers across America, [Rosa] Parks, with her quiet dignity, has been a symbol for the civil rights movement in this country. Those who orchestrated the Montgomery bus boycott bypassed several other women to choose Parks as a representative of all the black women and men who were forced to live with Jim Crow laws and customs in the south, and she lived up to their expectations." ~"Rosa Parks" from Black Women in America (reference) E185.86 .B542 2005

Selected Books

Black Women in America (reference) E185.86 .B542 2005

Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (reference) E185.86 .B542 1993

The Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans (reference) E185 .A8 1991

Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley F334.M753 P373 2000

Rosa Parks: My Story by Rosa Parks F334.M753 P37 1990

Selected Websites

Rosa Parks
http://www.rosaparks.org/

Rosa Parks Biography from Gale Thompson
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/parks_r.htm

Rosa Parks Library and Museum, Troy University, Montgomery
http://montgomery.troy.edu/museum/

New York Times Obituary: Rosa Parks
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/national/25parks.html?hp
or search ProQuest Newspapers for more news and obituaries

Library of Congress: African-American Odyssey
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aohome.html
see: The Civil Rights Era