1913 Born Rosa Louise McCauley, in Tuskegee,
Alabama,
February 4.
1923 Enters school in Montgomery, Alabama.
1929 Leaves school to care for grandmother.
1932 Marries Raymond Parks in Pine Level,
Alabama.
1933 Receives high school diploma.
1943 Becomes secretary to the Montgomery
NAACP.
Tries to register to vote and is denied.
Is forced off bus for not entering at the back door.
1944 Is again denied the opportunity to
register to vote.
1945 Finally receives certificate for voting.
1949 Becomes adviser to the NAACP Youth
Council.
1955 Meets Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Arrested on December 1, for not yielding her seat to a
white man on a
Montgomery, Alabama bus.
Stands trial on December 5.
Montgomery bus boycott begins.
1956 Loses job at Montgomery Fair Department
Store, January.
1957 Moves to Detroit.
Served on staff of U.S. Representative John Conyers.
1963 Attends civil rights march on
Washington.
1965 Participates in Selma-to-Montgomery
civil rights march.
1977 Raymond Parks dies.
1979 Mother, Leona McCauley dies.
Receives Spingarn Medal, NAACP.
1980 Receives Martin Luther King Jr. Award.
Awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent
Peace Prize
Receives Service Award, Ebony.
1984 Receives Eleanor Roosevelt Women of Courage
Award.
1986 Receives Medal of Honor.
1987 Co-founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks
Institute For
Self-Development with Ms.
Elaine Steele.
Receives Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award.
1990 3000 plus people attend a birthday
celebration at
the Kennedy Center
in her honor.
Receives Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Legislative
Achievement Award.
1991 Bust of Rosa Parks unveiled at
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
1992 Meets Dr. Daisku Ikeda, founder/Pres (SGI)
Soka
Gakkai International of
Japan.
Publishes first book, Rosa Parks: My Story
with Jim Haskins.
1994 Joseph Skipper of Detroit breaks into
her home,
beats and robs her.
Trip to Japan, receives Honorary
Doctorate Degree,
Soka University, Japan.
Trip to Sweden, receives Peace Award; lit Peace
in Stockholm, Sweden.
1995 Trip to Montgomery, Alabama for Fortieth
Anniversary
of the bus boycott.
Publishes her book Quiet Strength, with Gregory J. Reed
(Zondervan Publishing
House).
Tribute gospel CD A Tribute to Mrs. Rosa Parks released
to honor her.
Executive Producer, Gregory J. Reed
(Verity Records).
Attended the Million Man March, Washington, D.C.
1996 Celebrated her 83rd birthday.
Limited edition historic dolls launched on February 4.
1997 Michigan Senators designate February 4,
"Rosa Parks Day."
1999 Selected for a Congressional Gold Medal
on June 15.
Congress funds Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute
$1 million.
Rosa Parks National Tribute held at Orchestra Hall.
Receives Congressional Gold Medal on November 28.
2000 Rosa Parks Library and Museum founded in
her honor.
2002 Attended TV movie premiere of her story,
February 2.
2005 Went home to be with the Lord, October
24.
Lay in Honor, U.S. Capitol Rotunda,
October 31.
(making her the first woman and second African
American ever to
receive this honor)
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