CodeSwitch, a podcast from NPR, just aired an amazing program with the audio recordings of the women who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott that began with Claudette Colvin's arrest and became a full-on movement with Rosa Park's arrest.
It's worth having your students listen to the entire 36 minute episode.
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/17/1197954608/the-women-who-masterminded-the-montgomery-bus-boycott
What did you hear that surprised you?
Were there things that happened prior to Rosa Parks' refusing to move that you had never heard before?
Why do you think women were so integral to the boycott?
How was Martin Luther King, Jr important to the boycott?
Look at contemporary resources -- how has Montgomery, Alabama changed since 1956? How has it resisted change?
Library Resources on the Boycott
The Bus Boycott: Rosa Parks Papers
Looking Back on the Bus Boycott blog post
Instructions to carpool drivers and passengers
Newspapers across the nation talking about the Boycott
Where Rosa Parks Waited for the Bus
Rita Dove and "On the Bus with Rosa Parks"
Museum Resources
Standing Up by Sitting Down E-learning
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