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Rosa Louise Parks was born in Tuskegee, AL; on February 4,1913
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At twenty Rosa married a barber named Raymond Parks on December 18, 1932.
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On this date at the age of 42, Rosa Park took the bus home from work. She sat in near the middle of the bus just behind the 10 resvered seats for whites, so the bus was full and she was ask to go to the back of the bus and she refused and she got arrested.
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During this time there was 75% of black people that were riders of the bus and they decide to boycott the bussing sytem and find other ways toget to work.
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US Supreme Court rules that the segregation law was unconstitutional
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On this date Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail He and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama.
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On this date Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.had is famous "I have a dream" speech in Washinton D.C. in front of the Lincoln Memorial
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On this date Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN at the age of 39
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On this date Rosa Parks lost her Husband after a five year battle with cancer
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On August 30, 1994; Rosa Parks at the age of 81 in her own home she was mugged by a young black man named Joseph Skipper.
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Rosa Parks died on Octerber 24, 2005 in Detroit, MI she died of natural causes
