rosa parks timeline

By sophiaspensley

  • Rosa Parks Was Born

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    Parks attended the Montgomery Industrial School

  • Parks gets married to Raymond Parks

  • Receives High School Diploma

  • Selected as Secretary and AACP

  • Parks becomes a Youth Counsel Advisor

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a public transportation bus

  • Arrested with other boycotting people

  • She lost her job

  • Rosa Parks moves to Detroit, Michigan

  • Marched on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

  • Awarded NAACP for Spingarn Medal

  • She founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks institute for self-development

  • She published an Autobiography

  • Published Quiet Strength: The Faith, The Hope, the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

  • Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

  • Awarded Congressional Gold Medal

  • Dies in Detroit, Michigan