Timeline: Rosa Parks Sat for Equality

Feb 4, 1913

Rosa Parks was Born

Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, AL.

Sep 21, 1923

Rosa Parks mother enrolled her in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls (Miss White’s School for Girls), a private institution After she completed all schooling available at the rural school.

Sep 21, 1925

Rosa Parks went on to Alabama's State Teachers College High School

Dec 18, 1932

Rosa Parks Married Raymond Parks

Sep 21, 1934

Rosa Parks Recieved her High School Diploma in 1934

Sep 21, 1955

Rosa Parks and her Husband Raymond were active in the NAACP particularly with the youth

Oct 28, 1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Monday, Dec. 5, was an historic day. The boycott began, Rosa Parks was tried in city court and convicted, the initial meeting of what would become the Montgomery Improvement Association was held, and a mass meeting of black citizens made history.That Monday dawned cold but clear. Morning buses that normally would be crowded with blacks heading to work throughout the city were essentially empty. (Montgomeyr bus boycott)

Dec 1, 1955

Rosa Parks was arrested

I did not get on the bus to get arrested; I got on the bus to go home.
From Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Quiet Strength
(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Pub. House, 1994), 23. Contrary to the folkloric accounts of her civil rights role, Mrs. Parks was not too tired to move. Rather, she had been a knowledgeable NAACP stalwart for many years and gave the organization the incident it needed to move against segregation in the unreconstructed heart of the Confederacy, Montgomery, AL. (NAACP.org)

Dec 6, 1955

Rosa Parks Found guilty

May 17, 1956

Segregation Ruled Illegal

Brown vs. The board of education declared segregation unconstitutional.

Dec 5, 1956

Rosa Loses her Job

The Parks payed a heavy price for their activism Rosa Parks lost her job as a seamstress. She and her husband were constantly harassed and threatened, which the family believes caused Raymond to suffer a nervous breakdown. (Montgomerybusboycott)