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Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on Feb. 4th, 1913. She was born to James and Leona McCauley.
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Rosa Parks got enrolled in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls.
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Parks ends up going to Alabama State Teachers College for black people. This was in her 10th and 11th grade years.
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She gets married on Dec 18th to Raymond Parks. He was a professional barber.
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WW2 oficially begins
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Refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus and gets kicked off the bus. Later, she then tries to vote and gets denied.
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US Supreme Court bands segregation in interstate bus travel.
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Tested the laws in the south for segregated bus travel.
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Racial segregation in the public schools was ruled unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Pres. Eisenhower signs in 1960 the civil rights act.
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MLK gets arrested for trying to eat in a white-only restaurant in St. Augustine, Florida.
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A Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation is published by Detriot Public Schools and the Detriot news. This is the 25th anniversary of her refusing to get off the bus.
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She publishes her very first book.
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Rosa Parks passes away with dementia.
