Free Resources to Teach Kids About Rosa Parks

February 3, 2023

Check out these free resources to help kids learn about Rosa Parks, a activist in the civil rights movement.

Rosa Parks is best know for her roll in the Montgomery bus boycott during the 1950s. Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus in December of 1955. She was arrested for her actions which launched the Montgomery bus boycott where 17,000 black citizens refused to use the city bus.

Bedtime History: Rosa Parks Story for Kids

Podcast: Listen to the Bedtime History Podcast

PBS Kids: Storytime with Brad Meltzer | I am Rosa Parks

TED-Ed: The hidden life of Rosa Parks

National Geographic: The Life of Rosa Parks

Website: National Geographic The Life of Rosa Parks

Time for Kids: This is Rosa

Website: Time for Kids This is Rosa

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