Rosa Parks

By akmitchell

  • Born in Tuskegee, Alabama

  • Marries Raymond Parks

  • Receives high school diploma

  • Becomes secretary of the Montgomery Chapter of the NAACP

  • Registers to vote

  • Arested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man on December 1 Montgomery bus boycott starts

  • Montgomery Bus Boycutt ends

  • Published her first book, Rosa Parks; My Story

  • Receives highest US civilian honor the Presidential Medal of Freedom

  • Awarded the Congress Gold Medal of Honor; Named by TIME magazine as one of the twenty most powerful figures of the century.

  • Dies at 92