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Rosa Parks was born in Ferbruary 4th 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery, at her mother's house.
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Rosa Parks entered a bus and paid her 10-cent fee. Instead of going out and then get in through the back doors, she went straight through the white section and then sat in the black section. The driver went angry at her and ordered her to get out and then come back. After a long discussion, she got out of the bus and walked in pouring rain.
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Rosa Parks joined the NAACP in 1943 and then became active in the Civil Rights Movement.
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In 1955, in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks entered a bus and refused to give up her seat to a white man. The driver called the police and she got arrested. This led to a 381-day boycott against the Montgomery bus system which led to a decision that declared the end of segregation in buses around the US.
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In 1957, she was already a member of the NAACP and a symbol of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s movement
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Rosa Parks was hired as a secretary for the US Representative John Conyers in his office in Detroit.
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Rosa Parks was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a Medal that is awarded for outstanding achievements by African Americans.
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In 1992, she published her biography, which was aimed at younger people and detailed her life leading to her decision to not give up her seat.
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On August 30, 1994, Joseph Skipper, an African-American drug addict, attacked 81-year-old Parks in her home.
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In 1996, Rosa Parks was presented, by Bill Clinton with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.This is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a civilian by the United States Government.
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Rosa Parks issued a lawsuit in March 1999 against American hip-hop duo OutKast and LaFace Records, claiming that the group had illegally used Rosa Parks' name whitout her permission for the song
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She was named by the Time Magazine as one of the top 20 most influential women of the century
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Rosa Parks died in Detroit in her apartment in the east side of the city at the age of 92. She had been diagnosed with progressive dementia the previous year.
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A statue was built in Rosa Parks' honor in the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.
