- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Rosa Parks
- Contributor to Resource:
- Eyes on the Prize (PBS)
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Libraries. Special Collections - Publisher:
- Henry Hampton Collection, Washington University Libraries, Saint Louis, Missouri.
- Date of Original:
- 1955/1956
- Subject:
- African American women civil rights workers--Alabama--Montgomery
African American women political activists--Alabama--Montgomery
Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956
Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery
African Americans--Segregation
African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Montgomery
Segregation--Alabama--Montgomery
Segregation in transportation--Law and legislation
Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery
Social justice--United States
Montgomery (Ala.)--Race relations
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Women's Political Council (Montgomery, Ala.)
Montgomery Improvement Association
Browder, Aurelia S.--Trials, litigation, etc.
Gayle, W. A.--Trials, litigation, etc. - People:
- Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Nixon, Edgar Daniel
Browder, Aurelia S.
Gayle, W. A. - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997 - Medium:
- instructional materials
teaching guides
resource units
interviews
transcripts - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- text/html
video/quicktime - Description:
- The leadership of the Civil Rights movement was largely defined by major figures like Martin Luther King Jr., but behind the scenes were people like Lola Hendricks who helped organize the community and filed lawsuits to end discrimination and segregation. In this interview, Hendricks describes her role in the Civil Rights movement.
Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute.
Grade range: 6-12.
A transcript of the Quicktime movie is available.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.parks/
- Rights Holder:
- The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis.
- Extent:
- text/pdf
3.1 Mb
ca. 2m 13s - Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Rights:
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