Rosa Parks’ timeline

  • She was born

    She was born
    Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.A. She was daughter do James and Leona McCauley.
  • Rosa’s parents got divorced

  • Rosa and her mother moved to Pine Level, Alabama

    Rosa’s mother moved the family to Pine Level,Alabama to live eith Rosa’s grandparents,Rose and Sylvester Edwards.
    Rose and Sylvester was formei salves and strings advocates of racial equality.
  • Parks started elementary School/Was forced to drop it

    Parks started elementary School/Was forced to drop it
    At the age of 11, she started elementary school in Montgometry Industrial School, but because of her grandmother’s disease, she was forced to drop school in order to work.
  • Rosa got married

    She got married with Raymond Parks. Who was a guy that would fight for black people’s rights, just like his wife.
  • She refused to leave her seat on the bus

    She refused to leave her seat on the bus
    In the evening, Parks entered on a bus, she payed the ticket and sat on the reserved for black-people sit. The bus was getting fuller and fuller, as time passed, many other people entered there. The driver noticed a few white people standing up, he made all the black guys to give their seats for the white ones, but Rosa refused to.
  • She was arrested

    After she refused to leave her seat on the bus, the bus driver called the police and she was arrested.
  • Montgomery Buses Boycott

    Rosa participated/startedthe Montgomery Buses Boycott
  • Rosa Parks received a Bill Clintons' comendation

  • She wrote a book about her life

    She wrote a book about her life
    The name of the book is Rosa Parks: My story
  • She was dumped out of her apartment

    Due her mental and physical condition she wasnt able to pay the bills anymore, so she was dumped
  • Parks died