Annotated
Bibliography
Cozzens, Lisa. The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1956. African American History. (1998, May 25). A detailed
description about the movement and it's role in the
struggle for civil rights in America. http://fledge.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/civilrights-55-65
King, Richard T. (1992). "Civil
Rights and the Ideas of Freedom". The
Experience of Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story Negro Heritage Library (1964). New York: American Book-Stratford Press. An
entire volume written by Martin Luther King jr. about the bus boycott.
Has a great deal of primary source information, including alot
of personal anaylsis from himself.
It's obviously biased, and its written in an eloquent
and informative style that makes one symapthetic to
African Americans who participated in the movement. Overall it provides an
excellent account of the movement from the perspective of one of its most
prominent leaders.
Burns, Stewart ed. (1992). Daybreak of Freedom. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. An excellent book that has several primary
source accounts of the movement. Has important speeches, interviews, articles
and letters written by members of the movement. Provides
unbiased information from both sides of the movement including KKK letters and
other opposition forces.
Wynn, Daniel W. (1974). The
Black Protest Movement. New York:Philosophical Library. Has a decent amount of information about
what the movement was. Speaks of the general aspects of the
movement. However, this book has an excellent section on the theology of
the movement. It speaks on the several influences of the non-violent movement
from Ghandi to Rustin.
Parks, Rosa and Haskins, Jim (contributor).(1992). Rosa Parks: My Story. New York: Dial Books. Park's story about the
Montgomery bus boycott through her own eyes. Parks speaks on life in Montgomery at the time of her arrest and her involvement with
the NAACP. She tells about her life before the arrest, and how the arrest
affected her life. It is written in easy format and is able for everyone to
understand easily. However, the book is biased because it only provides for one
opinion. She leaves out many important aspects of the movement and she somewhat
glorifies what the movement was about.
Alabama Archives: Teacher Packet. An
excellent primary resource about the movement. Several
images of actual narratives of the movement. View articles from the
actual Montgomery paper and much more. http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights/rights1.html
The Montgomery Bus Boycott Page. A site that has links to several
different aspects of the boycott. There is a page which highlights why
the boycott was an important movement and also a chronology of the movement. http://socsci.colorado.edu/~jonesem/montgomery.html
The Montgomery Bus Boycott Virtual Tour. This website is a part of the Civil Rights Musuems virtual tour. Though there is only one picture on
the boycott, there are several other great photographs that relate to the civil
rights movement. http://www.mecca.org/~crights/montgomery.html
What was the Montgomery bus boycott
Montgomery, Alabama circa 1955
Theology of the movement
Read the law that called for segregation on the buses
Who was involved?
White reaction and oppositional forces
Why was the boycott an important movement
Annotated bibliography
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