-
Rosa McCauley is born in Tuskegee, Alabama
-
Rosa Parks attends Pine Level school in Alabama for six years.
-
Attended the Montgomery Industrial School for girls, at age eleven
-
Marries Raymond Parks in Pine Level Alabama.
-
Rosa Parks finally recieved her high school decree after having to leave to take care of her sick grandmother.
-
-She became Secretary of the NAACP
-Tries to register to vote as a black and is denied
-Put off bus for first time for not entering the back and standing up for herself. -
Rosa finally recieved her certificate for voting, after two failed attempts.
-
Rosa Parks was arrested, because she refused to give up her seat to a white man in a bus in Montgomery.
-
Rosa stood trial and was found guilty. This lead to the start of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott.
-
A year after the incident on the bus that lead to the boycott, the boycott ended. Boycotters returned to buses.
-
Rosa moved to Detroit and started working for congressman John Conyers.
-
Rosa created this organization to help young people and worked hard to raise money for it. This was ten years after her husband, Raymond's, death.
-
Rosa Parks retired from working for John Conyers when she 75 years old.
-
Rosa dies at the of age 92 in her apartment on the east side of Detroit.
