- 1900Segregation law becomes official part of Montgomery City code
- 1913Rosa Louis McCauley born in Tuskegee, Alabama
- 1931Rosa becomes highly active in defending the Scottsboro Boys
- 1932Rosa Louis McCauley weds Raymond Parks
- 1943Rosa joins NAACP
- 1943Forced off of segregated bus for accidentally sitting in seat reserved for whites
- 1944Took a job on the un-segregated Maxwell Air Force Base
- 1955(Dec. 1): Arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white man
- 1955Beginning of Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 1956Browder v. Gayle filed in U.S. District Court
- 1956Segregation law ruled unconstitutional
- 1956End of Montgomery Bus Boycott
- 1957Left Montgomery, Alabama to seek work in Virginia
- 1957Left Virginia and moved to Detroit, Michigan
- 1964The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passed, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2nd.
- 1965Hired by U.S. Representative John Conyers
- 1979Awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP
- 1980Awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award by the NAACP
- 1983Inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame
- 1987Founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development
- 1988Retired from employment in office of Representative Conyers
- 1990Invited to be part of the welcoming party for Nelson Mandela
- 1992Awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award
- 1992Rosa Parks: My Story – Autobiography published
- 1994Attacked in her apartment by Joseph Skipper
- 1996Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton
- 1998Awarded the International Freedom Conductor Award by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- 1999Awarded the Congressional Gold Medal
- 1999Awarded the Detroit-Windsor International Freedom Festival Freedom Award
- 1999Named by Time Magazine as one of the 20 most influential figures of the century
- 2000Awarded the Alabama Governor’s Medal of Honor
- 2000Awarded the Alabama Academy Award
- 2000The Rosa Parks Library and Museum dedicated at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama
- 2005Rosa Parks death from complications of progressive dementia
- 2005Rosa Parks‘ body allowed to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda
- 2006Statue of Rosa Parks placed in National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.
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