Rosa Parks Timeline

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    Rosa's Lifespan

  • Rosa's Birth

    Rosa's Birth
    Rosa Parks History On Februrary 4th, 1913, Rosa Parks was born.

  • Rosa Leaves School

    Rosa Leaves School
    Rosa left school in the 11th grade to help her sick grandmother. She never went back to school, but instead went to work at a shirt factory in Montgomery.

  • Rosa Meets Raymond Parks

    Rosa Meets Raymond Parks
    At the age of 19, Rosa Parks met her furture husband, Raymond Parks.

  • Rosa Gets Her Degree

    Rosa Gets Her Degree
    In 1933, Rosa got her high school degree with Raymond's help.

  • Rosa Joins the NAACP

    Rosa Joins the NAACP
    Rosa became a civil rights activist.

  • Refusal

    Refusal
    Rosie's Life Rosa Parks was riding the bus home when white people began to fill the aisles. The driver stopped and began making four African American people get off the bus. However, Rosa refused to get out of her seat. The police arrested her for it.

  • Rosa Parks: My Story

    Rosa Parks: My Story
    Rosa's Lifetime In 1992, Rosa Parks published her autobiography.

  • Presidential Medal of Freedom

    Presidential Medal of Freedom
    President Bill Clinton awarded Rosa Parks the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

  • Time Magazine: Top 20

    Time Magazine: Top 20
    In 1999, Rosa Parks was named one of the top 20 most influential people in the 20th century.

  • Rosa's Death

    Rosa's Death
    With a quiet death, Rosa Parks passed away but her legacy has never faded since.