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Rosa Parks

By butterflyams

  • Birth of Rosa Parks

    Birth of Rosa Parks
    Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.

  • Left School

    Left School
    While in the 11th grade and attending a laboratory school for secondary education led by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes, Rosa left school to attend to both her sick grandmother and mother back in Pine Level. She never returned to her studied; instead, she got a job at a shirt factory in Montgomery.

  • Marriage

    Marriage
    In 1932, at age 19, Rosa met and married Raymond Parks, a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

  • High School Degree

    High School Degree
    With Raymond's support, Rosa earned her high school degree in 1933

  • Civil Rights

    Civil Rights
    She got involved in civil rights issues by joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP in 1943, serving as the chapter's youth leader as well as secretary to NAACP President E.D. Nixon

  • Department Store

    Department Store
    Montgomery department store, where she worked as a seamstress,

  • Back of the Bus

    Back of the Bus
    the day of Rosa's trial—in protest of her arrest.

  • Racial Segregation

    Racial Segregation
    The district court declared racial segregation laws (also known as "Jim Crow laws") unconstitutional.

  • Ruling of trial

    Ruling of trial
    The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the lower court's ruling

  • Boycott ended

    Boycott ended
    With the transit company and downtown businesses suffering financial loss and the legal system ruling against them, the city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift its enforcement of segregation on public buses, and the boycott officially ended

  • Lost Post

    Lost Post
    She no longer worked with the civil right movements

  • Institution founded

    Institution founded
    Rosa founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development.

  • Autobiography

    Autobiography
    Rosa published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography recounting her life in the segregated South.

  • Quiet Strength

    Quiet Strength
    she published Quiet Strength which includes her memoirs and focuses on the role that religious faith played throughout her life.

  • Death

    Death
    Rosa Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan. She had been diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia. Her death was marked by several memorial services, among them lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., where an estimated 50,000 people viewed her casket