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In Tuskegee, Alabama to James and Leona Parks. Her father was a carpenter and her mother a school teacher.
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She bravely refused to give up her seat to a white man and is ejecxted from a racially segregated bus.
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U.S. Supreme Court banned segregationin interstate bus travel on June 3rd. Race riots occur in Alabama and Pennsyvania.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
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Rosa Doesn't give up seat Rosa is arrested in Montgomery Alabama for not giving her seat to a white passenger on the bus. Montgomery bus boycott begins and lasts 381 days.
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The Montgomery buses become desegregated and black passengers could legally take any seat on the city's buses.
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Rosa moves to Detroit and becomes a seamstress. Martin Luther King Jr becomes president of Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
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I have a dream speech
Rosa meets Martin Luther King Jr. She attends his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial. -
Spigarn Medal
In recognition to the quiet courage and determination exemplified when she refused to surrender her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. -
Rosa Publishes her first autobiography "Rosa Parks My Story"
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She died in her Detroit home from progressive demntia. Her funeral servies was 7 hours long.
