December 1: Rosa Parks Human Rights Day of Absence

Learn More About Rosa Parks

The Official Rosa and Raymond Parks website: http://www.rosaparks.org/

For a short essay by historian and author Horace Randall Williams on the significance of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: http://www.troopsoutnow.org/statements/mntgbus.shtml

For quick and easy reference to Rosa Parks try this website: http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/index.htm - There are a number of excellent and available film documentaries and dramatizations of the Montgomery bus boycott including /The Story of Rosa Parks/, starring Angela Bassett, and /The Long Walk Home/, starring Whoopi Goldberg.