Rosa Parks

Timeline created by Trevor Blu in Biography

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
02/04/1913	The Birth of the freedom fighter	Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on Feb 4 1913 to mother Leona and father James McCauley.
01/22/1915	Moving in with her Granparents	When Rosa was 2 she moved to her grandparents farm in Pine Level Alabama with her mother and her brother Sylvester.
01/01/1924	First time at school	At the age of 11 she went to school for the first time. She enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls which was a private school
01/19/1943	Active in the NAACP.	She work as a secretary of the Montgomery chapter.
12/01/1955	The Montgomery Bus Boycott	One day Rosa was tired from a long day at work. as usual she paided in the front and went to sit in the first seat of the black section of the bus. Then a white man came on and saw there were no more seats in the white section so he and the driver demanded he seat. well as you know she refused and was arrested.
01/19/1956	Her retirement from the NAACP	Retired after 13 years of work of the NAACP.
01/24/1957	Moving to Detroit.	In 1957, Mrs. Parks and her husband moved to Detroit, Michigan where Mrs. Parks served on the staff of U.S. Representative John Conyers.
01/24/1979	Rosa Parks Freedom Award	Won the NAACP Award
01/01/1996	Presidential Medal of Freedom	President Clinton gave Rosa the Presidential Medal of Freedom
10/24/2005	The Death of Rosa Parks	Rosa Parks Died on October 24, 2005. The cause of death was from old age.
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02/04/1913 to 10/24/2005	Rosa Parks Timespan