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Rosa's husband, Raymond Parks, was born in Dawsonville, Georgia.
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Rosa Parks parents get married and they have Rosa and her brother, Sylvester.
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Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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When Rosa was 6 years old, the Ku Klux Klan attacked the African Americans in her area. Luckily, she wasn't attacked.
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Rosa and her family move to Montgomery, Alabama, where the boycott started.
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Rosa got a job at Maxwell Field, the local Army Air Force base.
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Rosa and Raymond Parks got married.
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Rosa met Edgar Nixon. He was the president of the Montgomery Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Rosa joined the NAACP, a national organization that protests against racial discrimination, lynching, brutality, and unequal education.
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Rosa took the test to get registered to vote after 3 attempts and finally passed. She was now a registered voter.
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Rosa Parks refused to get up out of her seat on the Montgomery city bus when a white man demanded to have it. s a result, she was arrested.
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Rosa officially started the bus boycott
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Rosa meets Martin Luther King Jr. This was important because he had a huge impact on making segregation illegal.
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Court ruled in their favor that segregation on the Montgomery buses was unconstitutional.
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Raymond Parks died on August 19, 1977.
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Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005.
