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She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, a city with roughly 2800 inhabitants in the 1910s
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She married Raymond Parks, a barber who was an active member in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). -
She served first as a secretary and, although the organization was sexist, she became the youth leader of the local branch. -
Rosa didn’t want to give her seat to a white man. The driver called the police and the woman was arrested and forced to pay a penalty of 14$ (144.5$/128 € today) The bus incident caused the creation of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) -
The Montgomery Improvement Association organized and promoted a nonviolent boycott to the Montgomery buses. Thousand of people joined the protest to demand equal rights por all people.
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Because of the protests, the american goberment was forced to remove the discrimination in the public transport. -
She co-founded the highschool Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development. Today, this center organizes the anual program “Pathways to Freedom”. -
Rosa Parks was diagnosed with progresive dementia -
She died in his apartment in Detroid, Michigan
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All the city buses in Montgomery and Detroit reserved their front seats with black ribbons in her honor.
