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Februaury 4, 1913
Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama to James McCauley and Leona McCauley. When Rosa Parks was 2 years old she moved to her grandparents farm in Pine Level, Alabama with her younger brother and mother due to the fact that her parents separated. she later enrolled at a private school, Rosa parks mother was a teacher and her father was a carpenter. The city where Rosa Parks moved to had a new school with alot of things provided to the white kids but the African- American went to a small room. -
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Rosa Park
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Rosa Parks Joins the NAACP
Rosa Parks joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as a secretary. She was referred to as “the mother of the civil rights movement” because she was the one that started a 13 month struggle to end segregation on city buses called the Montgomery bus boycott. The Montgomery bus boycott was also an example to the southern states because it was a huge protest and there was no violence shown. -
She refuses
On December 1, 1955, Parks refused the bus driver’s orders to give up the seat to the white passenger, the driver called the police to arrest her. She asked why they were doing that and the officers said it was the law. After arrest she was bailed out of jail Edgar Nixon. They plan to start a boycott. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Plans for the Montgomery Bus Boycott were announced. At the rally that night they agree to continue boycott until they treated fairly. Changes are made for the black people at the bus, and black drivers were hired.This resulted the development of Montgomery Improvement Association on December 5th, 1955. -
End of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott ended on December 20, 1956, the day the city of Montgomery received a court order mandating integration of the buses. The boycott began on December 5, 1955 in reaction to Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white man. In all it lasted a little over a year for about 381 days. -
End of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Video
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The Montgomery buses are desegregated and black passengers could legally take any seat on the city's buses
Rosa Parks is known as the African American who refused to give up her seat to a white man. During those days white people were supposed to fill up the front row and go back and black people were supposed to fill up the back row and begin going to the front. If the bus was full and a white person needed a seat the first row of blacks were to stand up to start a new row for white people. -
The Montgomery buses are desegregated
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Left Alabama
Left Alabama to find a job in Virginia. After getting arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in the bus, Rosa Parks became one of the most historical people at the time. Mostly all black people and even women looked up to her for being brave. Yet, unfortunately, she lost her job at the department store and her husband quit his job after his boss didn't allow him to talk about Rosa’s case. Raymond and Rosa left Alabama for Hampton, Virginia because she couldnt find a job. -
Riots break out on the campus at the University of Mississippi
After the Civl rights, James Meredith an African American tried desperately to enroll into Ole Miss. After being denied multiple times he filed lawsuit for racial discrimination. Eventually he enrolled into the college. -
Riots break out on the campus at the University of Mississippi
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The civil Rights act was signed
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a bill that changed the face of America. It opened all public accommodations hotels, restaurants, swimming pool to all Americans regardless of race, color, religion or national origin.The bill also ended legal discrimination in employment on the basis of race or sex, and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce the law. -
Rosa Parks becomes Deaconess
The African Methodist Episcopal Church, which most people call the A.M.E. Church, is a predominantly African American Methodist denomination based in the United States. It was founded by the Rev. Many Methodist congregations in the mid-Atlantic area wanted independence from white Methodists. The AMEC is a church founded by black people , Rosa Parks who is known as the mother of the civil rights movement becomes a member of the church. -
Rosa Parks becomes Deaconess
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Rosa Parks was hired by a US Representative
Rosa Parks was hired by a US Representative, John Conyers. Although she became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks suffered hardships as a result. After getting arrested and then fired from her job, Rosa worked at a seamstress until an African-American US Representative hired Parks as his secretary and receptionist at his congressional office in Detroit, Michigan. -
Awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAAC
The Springarn Medal is awarded annually by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for outstanding achievement by an African American.
The award, which consists of a gold medal, was created by Joel Elias Spingarn, Chairman of the Board of the NAACP in 1914. It was first awarded to biologist Ernest E. Just in 1915, and has been given each year thereafter, with the exception of 1938. -
Rosa Parks Death
Rosa Parks died after being diagnosed with progressive dementia in 2004. In honor of Rosa Parks the city buses in Montgomery and Detroit reserved their front seats with black ribbons.When Rosa Parks died they took her body to important places, places where she made a difference.She was taken to St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church. Her body was then transported to Washington,D.C. where she was then taken to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in a bus that was similar to the one she got arrested in.
