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Rosa is born
Rosa McCauley is born in Tuskegee, Alabama -
Enters her first school
Rosa Parks attends Pine Level school in Alabama for six years. -
Enters second school
Attended the Montgomery Industrial School for girls, at age eleven -
Rosa gets married
Marries Raymond Parks in Pine Level Alabama. -
Recieves High School Decree
Rosa Parks finally recieved her high school decree after having to leave to take care of her sick grandmother. -
Rosa Parks becomes more active in black rights
-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 Parks can vote
Rosa finally recieved her certificate for voting, after two failed attempts. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in a bus
Rosa Parks was arrested, because she refused to give up her seat to a white man in a bus in Montgomery. -
Rosa Parks stands trial
Rosa stood trial and was found guilty. This lead to the start of the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. -
The boycott ends
A year after the incident on the bus that lead to the boycott, the boycott ended. Boycotters returned to buses. -
Rosa Parks starts a new life in Detroit
Rosa moved to Detroit and started working for congressman John Conyers. -
Rosa Parks founds the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-development
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 retires
Rosa Parks retired from working for John Conyers when she 75 years old. -
Rosa Parks dies
Rosa dies at the of age 92 in her apartment on the east side of Detroit.
