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Rosa Parks begins picking cotton alongside her grandparents. Parks attended a segregated school in Pine Level, Alabama. Born in Alabama in 1913, she grew up in a segregated world that constantly exposed her to discrimination.
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Rosa Parks left school as an eleventh grader to take care of her sick mother and grandmother.
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She was introduced to Raymond Park. Which was the first activist she encountered.
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Rosa Parks returns back to school to finish her diploma.
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Rey, Taylor, a Black woman was raped. The Montgomery NAACP dispatches Parks to investigate the case.
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Rosa Parks became the Alabama State secretary for NAACP.
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Parks had to step down as a NAACP secretary to take care of her sick mother.
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After Parks took care of her sick mother, she was able to return to NAACP secretary.
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Parks attended a two weeks training session at the Highlander folk school in Tennessee.
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Rosa was defying segregation on the city buses.
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Parks is indicated for violating a Montgomery law outlawing boycotts.
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The Supreme court ruling that segregated buses are unconstitutional, the 381 day boycott ended.
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Rosa Parks join the march to Montgomery for equal voting rights.
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Rosa attended a five days rioting in Detroit.
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A " People's Tribunal" is held regarding three deaths during the riot in Detroit. Parks serves on the jury, which finds the police who were at the scene guilty.
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The NAACP awarded Rose Parks with it's highest accolade, the spingarn medal.