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Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, AL, to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher.
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The family moved from Tuskegee to Pine Level, Alabama.
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Rosa received some of her education at home and also attended the rural school in Pine Level.
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Attends Booker T. Washington High School for 9th grade but drops out when her grandmother becomes seriously ill and dies. She later goes back to school for her 10th and 11th grade at Alabama State College for Negroes.
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Marries Raymond Parks, a barber at 19.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat and is ejected from a racially segregated bus. She then tries to register to vote and is denied. She then becomes secretary of the Montgomery NAACP.
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WW2 is over, Rosa Parks finally receives certificate for voting after 3 attempts.
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Rosa and her husband Raymond work with Montgomery branch NAACP's programs. Rosa Parks acts as secretary and later a youth leader.
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Rosa is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white passenger. Also Martin Luther King becomes the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association which was organized due to protest against the incident involving Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott begins which will last 381 days.
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Rosa Parks speaks at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
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Rosa Parks was hired as a secretary to US representative John Conyers.
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King and 25,000 other protesters, including Rosa Parks, march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights.
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Her husband, Raymond Parks, 74, dies of cancer.
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NAACP awards Rosa Parks the Spingarn Medal.
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Rosa Parks retires from Congressman John Conyers' office.
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Rosa publishes her first book, "Rosa Park My Story".
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Rosa us assaulted and robbed of $53 in the home she rented in Detroit.
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Rosa Parks receives the Medal of Freedom President Bill Clinton.
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President Clinton awards Rosa the 250th Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the highest honor a civilian can receive in the United States.
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Rosa Parks dies in her Detroit home.
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Rosa Parks' funeral service, seven hours long, was held at the Greater Grace Temple Church.
