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Rosa Parks enters NAACP
Despite her husbands, who was also a member, fear of her safety, Parks joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP and became chapter secretary. -
First time Rosa refuses seat
Before her arrest on December 1st, she refused for the first time to move. The bus driver forcefully pulling her up caused her to move. She got off the bus instead of going to the back. -
Rosa Parks gets arrested.
Refusing to move from the front of the bus to the back for a white gentleman, and eventually police were called and arrested Parks on defiance. -
Preparation for boycott
The black community began sending flyers out and raising awareness of this boycott. General interest newspapers put it front row, Women's Political Counsel (WPC) began advertising, black ministers told the church. -
Rosa Parks Fate
Parks was found guilty of violating segregation laws. She was fined a total of $14 and suspended her license. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The local black community, outraged at this situation and outcomes, began boycotting the bus routes. Martin Luther King Jr. was apart of this boycott. 40,000 others joined the boycott. It lasted from 12/5/1995-12/20/1956 -
supreme court rules rosa parks innocent
A Montgomery federal court ruled that any law requiring racially segregated bus seating was in violation of the 14th Amendment -
violence after boycott
many houses were bombed, MLK's house almost bombed, churches were also bombed and destroyed. -
KKK members found guilty of previous violence
7 white men later found to be Ku-Klux-Klan members were found guilty of arson and destroying private/public property. -
The Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute Of Self-Development
Rosa and her husband created this group to offer job training for the black youth.