Timeline of Rosa Parks' Life Events

1900

Segregation law becomes official part of Montgomery City code

1913

Rosa Louis McCauley born in Tuskegee, Alabama

1931

Rosa becomes highly active in defending the Scottsboro Boys

1932

Rosa Louis McCauley weds Raymond Parks

1943

Rosa joins NAACP

1943

Forced off of segregated bus for accidentally sitting in a seat reserved for whites

1944

Took a job on the un-segregated Maxwell Air Force Base

1955

(Dec. 1): Arrested for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white man

1955

Beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

1956

Browder v. Gayle filed in U.S. District Court

1956

Segregation law ruled unconstitutional

1956

End of Montgomery Bus Boycott

1957

Left Montgomery, Alabama to seek work in Virginia

1957

Left Virginia and moved to Detroit, Michigan

1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passed, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2nd.

1965

Hired by U.S. Representative John Conyers

1979

Awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP

1980

Awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award by the NAACP

1983

Inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame

1987

Founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development

1988

Retired from employment in office of Representative Conyers

1990

Invited to be part of the welcoming party for Nelson Mandela

1992

Awarded the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award

1992

Rosa Parks: My Story – Autobiography published (See more books)

1994

Attacked in her apartment by Joseph Skipper

1996

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton

1998

Awarded the International Freedom Conductor Award by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

1999

Awarded the Congressional Gold Medal

1999

Awarded the Detroit-Windsor International Freedom Festival Freedom Award

1999

Named by Time Magazine as one of the 20 most influential figures of the century

2000

Awarded the Alabama Governor’s Medal of Honor

2000

Awarded the Alabama Academy Award

2000

The Rosa Parks Library and Museum dedicated at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama

2005

Rosa Parks dies from complications of progressive dementia

2005

Rosa Parks' body allowed to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol Rotunda

2006

Statue of Rosa Parks placed in National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.