The Montgomery Bus Boycott should be taught in all its complexity. A new article to complement our new Teaching the Civil Rights Movement framework.

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December 5, 2023
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** Teaching About the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott began 68 years ago today, on December 5, 1955. This pivotal campaign of nonviolent resistance would last for more than a year and forever change the future of the Civil Rights Movement and of our country. Yet despite how widely celebrated the boycott has been as part of our national story, the popular narrative of the boycott is often oversimplified, reductive and insufficient. The boycott did not come about because Rosa Parks was “tired”; she and other civil rights activists were strategically challenging a system of Jim Crow laws and segregation policies that restricted Black Americans’ rights and relegated them to second-class citizenship.

This new Learning for Justice article ([link removed]) provides a collection of resources to support learning about the true and full history of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, pushing beyond simplistic narratives and taking a deeper look at the ingenuity and perseverance of the boycott’s organizers and participants. Many of these resources are excerpted and adapted from LFJ’s newest curriculum framework, Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, which similarly seeks to broaden our understanding of the movement for equality that continues into the present day.

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** Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
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The Civil Rights Movement is part of a larger narrative of the struggle for equality and civil rights—a struggle that stretches back centuries and remains unfinished today.

LFJ’s new curriculum Teaching the Civil Rights Movement ([link removed]) deepens our understanding of the movement by grounding its events in a more expansive and nuanced context. Organized into four chronological periods, the publication includes essential knowledge within 14 summary objectives, guiding principles to support educators in being reflective and intentional in their teaching, and resource options for teaching the essential knowledge.
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** Browder v. Gayle
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It’s been called “the most important civil rights case you’ve never heard of.” In November 1956, the Supreme Court ruled in Browder v. Gayle that bus segregation was unconstitutional—but the case in question predated the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which had by then been running for more than a year. Learn more about this milestone case, the unheralded women behind it, and its wider relationship to the boycott and the crusade for racial equality in this LFJ article ([link removed]) .

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