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Birth of Rosa Parks
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Drops out of school
She attends Booker T. Washington High School, but drops out when her grandmother becomes seriously ill and subsequently dies. -
Rosa marries husband Raymond Parks
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Receives her high school diploma
... with the help and encouragement of her husband Raymond Parks -
She becomes secretary of the Montgomery NAACP
Rosa Parks tried to register to vote and was denied. This prompted her to join the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization formed to promote use of the courts to restore the legal rights of black Americans -
Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama
for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white passenger. She is arrested, fingerprinted, jailed by police and fined $14.
