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Rosa Parks Events

1913 Feb 4 Rosa Parks born
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher.
1932 Dec 18 Rosa Parks marries Raymond Parks
In 1932, Rosa married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery, at her mother's house. Raymond was a member of the NAACP, at the time collecting money to support the Scottsboro Boys, a gro...
1943 Rosa Parks first incident on segregated bus
For years, the black community had complained that the situation was unfair, and Parks was no exception: "My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arres...
1943 Dec Rosa Parks joins NAACP and becomes active in Civil Rights Movement
In December 1943, Parks became active in the Civil Rights Movement, joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and was elected volunteer secretary to its president, Edgar Nixon. Of her p...
1955 Dec 1
to 1956 Dec 20
 Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign started in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its publi...
1955 Dec 1 Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Up Seat on Bus
"I did not get on the bus to get arrested; I got on the bus to go home. " —Rosa Parks
1965 Rosa Parks hired as a secretary to US Representative John Conyers
After her arrest, Parks became an icon of the Civil Rights Movement but suffered hardships as a result. She lost her job at the department store, and her husband quit his job after his bo...
1979 NAACP awards Rosa Parks the Spingarn Medal
In 1979, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awarded Parks the Spingarn Medal,[41] its highest honor,[42] and she received the Martin Luther King Jr. Award the...
1992 Rosa Parks: My Story an autobiography is published
In 1992, Parks published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography aimed at younger readers which details her life leading up to her decision not to give up her seat. In 1995, she published ...
1994 Aug 30 Rosa Parks is attacked in her appartment
On August 30, 1994, Joseph Skipper, an African-American drug addict, attacked 81-year-old Parks in her home. The incident sparked outrage throughout America. After his arrest, Skipper sai...
1996 Sep 9 Bill Clinton awards Rosa Parks the Presidential Medal of Freedom
In 1996, Rosa Parks was presented, by President Bill Clinton, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This is the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a civilian by the United States G...
1999 Mar Rosa Parks files lawsuit against OutKast and LaFace Records
Rosa Parks v. LaFace Records, et al. was a lawsuit filed in March 1999 on Rosa Parks' behalf against American hip-hop duo OutKast and LaFace Records, claiming that the group had illegally...
2005 Oct 24 Rosa Parks dies
Rosa Parks resided in Detroit until she died at the age of 92 on October 24, 2005, about 7:00PM EDT, in her apartment on the east side of the city. She had been diagnosed the previous yea...
2005 Oct 28 House of Representatives approves to allow Rosa Parks' body to lie in US Capitol Rotunda
On October 28, 2005, the House of Representatives approved a resolution passed the previous day by the United States Senate to honor Parks by allowing her body to lie in honor in the U.S....