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The birth of Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents were James McCauley and Leona McCauley. Her Father was a carpenter and her mother was a teacher. -
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Rosa Parks's History
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A all white school
Rosa is enrolled in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. This is a all white school. -
The marriage
On Decemeber 18, 1932 Rosa Louise McCauley gets married. She married Raymond Parks. Raymond was a 29-year-old barber and Rosa was 19. -
Graduates
Rosa Parks received her high school diploma in 1934. She was able to do this with th help and encouragement from her husband. -
Rosa Parks Refusal
Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man when the bus driver orders her to do so. She is arrested and fined $14. Four days later Parks stands trial and is found guilty of breaking the segregation laws. -
The March
Rosa Parks joins in the March on Washington. This is where Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech before a crowd of about 250,000 at the Lincoln Memorial. -
Her husbands death
Rosa Parks husband, Raymond Parks died. He was 74 years old. He died from cancer. -
NAACP awards Rosa Parks
In 1979, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Parks the Spingarn Medal. Its highest honor. She received the Martin Luther King Jr. Award the next year.
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The attack
Parks is attacked and beaten in her home by an African-American man. He wanted money and apparently did not recognize her. She wrote after the incident, "I pray for this young man and the conditions in our country that have made him this way." -
Grand Opening
In 2000 was the dedication and grand opening of Troy State University-Montgomery's Rosa Parks Museum and Library.The Museum includes a permanent exhibit, a time machine, temporary exhibit space, archives, classrooms, an auditorium and conference room. -
Rosa Parks Death
Rosa Parks dies at her Detriot home. She was 92 years old. She died about 7:00P.M. She was in her apartment on the east side of the city. She had been diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia. -
Funeral Service
For two days, she lay in repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit. Parks' funeral service was seven hours long. It was held on Wednesday, November 2, 2005, at the Greater Grace Temple Church. After the funeral service, an honor guard from the Michigan National Guard laid the U.S. flag over the casket and carried it to a horse-drawn hearse, which had been intended to carry it, in daylight, to the cemetery.
