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Rosa Parks was born
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Rosa moves to Montgomery, Alabama
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Rosa drops out of school to take care of her dying grandmother and sick mother
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Rosa married Raymond Parks
Rosa married Raymond Parks, a self- educated man who was a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Rosa goes back to school and graduates high school
Raymond, her husband, had helped support and encourage her to go to school and get her diploma. -
Rosa Parks had an issue with the bus driver
Rosa Parks went to get onto the bus after paying the fare and the bus driver, James Blake, told her she needed to re-enter through the back. She refused and didn't ride the bus. -
Rosa joins the NAACP
She joined as a member and shortly became the chapter secretary -
Rosa Parks is arrested
Like any other day, Rosa Parks got onto the bus and sat in the "colored people" area but when the bus became full, James Blake, bus driver, told her to give up her seat so a white man could sit down. She refused and got arrested. -
Boycotting Montgomery Bus
Word traveled fast that Rosa was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. The black population of Montgomery would then boycott buses on the day of Rosa's trial. -
Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional.
The boycotts stopped after they received the written order.