Rosa Parks By Julianaburim 1913 She was born in Alabama 1917 She moved to Pine Level, Alabama 1929 She attended Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes 1932 She got married with Raymond Parks 1943 She refused to give up her seat to white man and was ejected 1943 She becomes secretary of the Montgomery NAACP 1945 She receives certificate for voting after three attempts 1946 The U.S supreme court banned segregation in interstate bus travel 1954 U.S Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in the public schools of America was unconstitutional 1955 She is arrested in Montgomery, for refusing to give her seat on the bus to white passenger 1955 Start of Bus Boycott 1956 The Montgomery buses are desegregated and black passengers could legally take any seat on the city's buses 1957 The SCLC is formed to form a strategy for ending segregation 1960 President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law 1963 Rosa attends Martin Luther's famous "I have a Dream" speech delivered at the Lincoln Memorial 1977 Her husband dies of cancer 1979 She receives NAACP's Spingarn Medal 1980 She was honor with Rosa Parks scholarship Foundation 1988 She retires 1992 She publishes her first book, "Rosa Parks My Story" 1996 She receives the Medal of Freedom President Bill Clinton 1997 The first monday following february 4th is designated as Rosa Parks Day in the State of Michigan 1999 President Clinton awards Rosa the 250th Congressional Gold Medal of Hornor, the highest honor a civilian can receive in the United States 2001 Filming of "The Rosa Parks Story" 2003 She is diagnosed with progressive dementia 2005 She dies in her Detroit home
