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Becomes secretary of NAACP
Rosa Parks becomes the secrtary of NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). -
Denied when trying to register to vote
Rosa Parks tried to register to vote and was denied -
Put off bus
Rosa Parks was first put off of a bus in 1943 for not entering through the back doors. -
Tries to register to vote for the secon time
Rosa Parks tried registerig to vote for a second time but was denied again and told she didn't pass the test. -
Finally receivs her certificate to vote
Her third time attempting to register to vote, Rosa Parks was so confident that she had passed the test and would not let them tell her she didn't, so she made a copy of her answers.So, finally, in 1945 she was issued her certificate for voting. -
Meets Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for the first time
In August of 1955. -
Arrested for not giving up her bus seat
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. She was sitting in one of the front seats of the black section on the bus. When a group of whites got on and filled up the white section, there was one white man left standing. That is when the bus driver demanded that all of the blacks sitting in the first row of the black section stand up and give this man a seat. Blacks and whites were not allowed to sit in the same row. -
Rosa Parks found guily at trial; bus boycott started
Rosa Parks went to trial for not giving up her seat to the white man and she was found guilty. That same day, she attended a meeting of ministers who formed the Montgomery Imprvement Association. This was the first day of the Montogomery, Alabama bus boycott. -
Discharged from Montgomery Fair Department Store
In January of 1956, Rosa Parks was let go fom her job. Although she was not told that it was because of the boycott, but she had speculated such. -
Reindicted for boycotting
In the middle of February, a group of white attorneys came up with an old law that prohibited boycotts, and on February 21 of 1956, a grand jury handed down 89 indictments. -
Segregation on buses ruled unconstitutional
Segregation on buses in Montgomery declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court. -
Boycotters return to buses
After a long struggle and fight, boycotters returned to the buses where segregation was not unconstitutional.
