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The day Rosa Parks was born, Feb 4th, 1913.
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While living in Montgomery, Rosa Parks finally enters a school at age eleven. From before this, she was home-schooled by her mother.
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Rosa Parks gets wedded to Raymond Parks.
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Rosa Parks accidentally sits on a seat reserved for a white man. Man yells and forces her off the seat, while the police then forced her off of the bus.
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After sitting in a White man's seat, then refusing to get up and give her seat to the white man, she was arrested for violating the laws of segregation known as the "Jim Crow Laws."
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After Rosa Parks got arrested from sitting on a White man's seat and refusing to give it up, she was arrested, and on the same day the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott finally ended. The result of this law being passed was that everybody was able to sit wherever they wanted.
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Rosa Parks was awarded the Springarn Medal by NAACP.
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Rosa Parks was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award by the NAACP.
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Rosa Parks was inducted into the Women's hall of Fame.
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Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005.
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Statue of Rosa Parks was placed in National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.