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Rosa Parks, born as Rosa McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Though this began when she was only one year old, Rosa had lived through the Great War and the Second World War as well.
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Rosa's younger brother Sylvester is born.
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Rosa's family moves from Tuskegee to Pine Level, Alabama.
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Rosa begins school in Pine Level, in a school house that was on the yards of her church
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When Rosa was ten, she had an encounter with a white boy, about her size, who threatened to hit her. She picked up a brick from the ground and quickly retaliated and the little boy had ran off.
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Rosa is enrolled in Miss White's School for Girls in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Rosa attends Booker T. Washington for ninth grade, but drops out to take care of her seriously ill grandmother.
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Rosa attends Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for grades 10 and 11.
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At age 19, Rosa marries Raymond Parks, who is a barber at the time.
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Rosa gets her high school diploma with the help of her husband.
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Rosa, now 26, at this time has been married to Raymond Parks for 7 years.
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Twelve years before her famous stand, Rosa refuses to give up her seat and is ejected from a segregated bus.
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Rosa would have been almost 33 years old now and married to her husband, Raymond, for 12 years.
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Just a few months before her famous stand, Rosa meets Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Rosa is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat to a white person. She is fingerprinted, jailed by police, and fined $14.
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On the same day Rosa is found guilty of violating segregation laws, the bus boycotts begin and last fo 381 days.
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A year after Rosa's famous stand, Montgomery buses are desegregated and blacks are legally allowed to take any seat.
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While at a book signing in a department store in Harlem, New York, a woman stabs Martin Luther King Jr.
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At about 12:30 pm while the President was on his way to make a speach at a luncheon, fire rang out through the streets and Kennedy was shot dead.
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While standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee Dr. Martin Luther King is shot and killed
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Rosa reveives the NAACP's Spingarn Medal
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At the age of 75, Rosa retires from Congressman John Conyer's Detriot office.
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Rosa publishes her first book, an autobiography of her entire life, leading up to the bus incident and events after that.
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President Bill Clinton honors Rosa Parks with a White House Ceremony and the Medal of Freedom.
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The first monday after Febuaray 4th is designated as Rosa Parks Day in the state of Michigan.
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Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States, was impeached by the House of Representatives on two charges, one of perjury and one of obstruction of justice.
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President Clinton had awarded Rosa, 86 at the time, and she was quoted saying, "This medal is encouragement for all of us to continue until all have rights."
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Almost thirty years after her husband, and two years of being diagnosed with dementia, Rosa Parks dies in her home in Detroit, Michigan.