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Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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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.
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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.
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With Raymond's support, Rosa earned her high school degree in 1933
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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
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Montgomery department store, where she worked as a seamstress,
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the day of Rosa's trial—in protest of her arrest.
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The district court declared racial segregation laws (also known as "Jim Crow laws") unconstitutional.
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The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the lower court's ruling
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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
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She no longer worked with the civil right movements
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Rosa founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development.
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Rosa published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography recounting her life in the segregated South.
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she published Quiet Strength which includes her memoirs and focuses on the role that religious faith played throughout her life.
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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
