|
|
|
Short Biography of Rosa Parks |
1913 |
This Rosa Parks timeline starts on February 4, 1913 when Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents were James McCauley, a carpenter and Schoolteacher Leona McCauley |
1915 |
August 20: Her brother, Sylvester McCauley was born |
1917 |
The family moved from Tuskegee to Pine Level, Alabama |
1919 |
Rosa received some of her education at home and also attended the rural school in Pine Level |
1924 |
Rosa is enrolled in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls (Miss White's School for Girls), a private institution |
1928 |
1928: She attends Booker T. Washington High School for ninth grade, but drops out when her grand mother becomes seriously ill and subsequently dies |
1929 |
For 10th and 11th grades, she attends Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes. |
1932 |
December 18: Marries Raymond Parks, a barber, at 19. |
1934 |
Receives her high school diploma with the help and encouragement of her husband Raymond Parks |
1934 |
1935: Baltimore Court rules Donald Murray must be admitted to white law school |
1939 |
WW2 begins |
1943 |
12 years before her famous stand Rosa Parks bravely refuses to give up her seat and is ejected from a racially segregated bus. She then tries to register to vote and is denied. She becomes secretary of the Montgomery NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, an organization formed to promote use of the courts to restore the legal rights of black Americans) |
1945 |
WW2 ends |
1946 |
June 3: The U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation in interstate bus travel |
1947 |
April 9: "Freedom Riders" tested the laws of interstate bus travel in the segregated South |
1949 |
Rosa and her husband Raymond work with Montgomery branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP's) programs. Rosa Parks acts as secretary and later a youth leader |
1954 |
May 17: U.S Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in the public schools of America was unconstitutional |
1955 |
May 31: U.S. Supreme Court orders desegregation of the public schools "with all deliberate speed" |
1956 |
January: Rosa Parks loses her job as a seamstress at Montgomery Fair |
1957 |
1957: Rosa Parks, her husband and mother move to Detroit where she works as a seamstress |
1958 |
September 20: Dr. Martin Luther King is stabbed by a woman while at a book signing in a department store in Harlem, New York |
1959 |
Rosa Parks returns to Detroit |
1960 |
May 6: President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law |
1961 |
May 4: An integrated group of 'Freedom Riders' left Washington, DC on Greyhound buses, and, upon arrival near Anniston, Alabama, the bus was burned, and the riders were beaten |
1962 |
September 30: Riots break out on the campus at the University of Mississippi |
1963 |
April 3: Birmingham, Alabama police chief, Eugene "Bull" Connor, becomes a symbol of racism when he broadcasts his methods of using dogs and fire hoses to stop peaceful demonstrators of the Black protest movement |
1964 |
June 11: Martin Luther King is arrested in St. Augustine, Florida for attempting to eat in a white-only restaurant |
1965 |
February 21: Malcolm X is assassinated in New York City |
1966 |
January 13: Robert C. Weaver becomes the first Black to serve in the cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs |
1967 |
May 1 - October 1: Summer riots where 43 people are killed |
1968 |
April 4: While standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee Dr. Martin Luther King is shot and killed |
1977 |
1977: Her husband, Raymond Parks, 74, dies of cancer. |
1979 |
1979 |
1980 |
1980: The Detroit News and Detroit Public Schools establish the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation, honoring the 25th anniversary of her stand in Montgomery |
1987 |
1987: She founds the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development with long time friend Elaine Eason Steele which offers guidance to young blacks |
1988 |
1988: Rosa Parks retires from Congressman John Conyers' office. 1988 |
1989 |
The First Pathways to Freedom ride is started (an historical education program) |
1992 |
Rosa publishes her first book, "Rosa Parks My Story" |
1994 |
Rosa Parks is assaulted and robbed of $53 in the home she rents in Detroit. The robber is arrested and convicted |
1995 |
Rosa Parks speaks at the Million Man March in Washington |
1996 |
Rosa Parks receives the Medal of Freedom President Bill Clinton |
1997 |
The first Monday following February 4th is designated as Rosa Parks Day in the State of Michigan |
1998 |
April 21: The Rosa Parks Museum and Library is opened at her arrest site in Montgomery, Alabama |
1999 |
President Clinton awards Rosa the 250th Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the highest honor a civilian can receive in the United States |
2000 |
December 1: Opening of Rosa Parks Museum and Library at Troy State University Montgomery, on the site where she was arrested in 1955 |
2001 |
April 30 -May 23: Filming of "The Rosa Parks Story" CBS Television Movie |
2002 |
February 24: Showing of: "The Rosa Parks Story" CBS Television Movie |
2003 |
October 29: Rosa Parks is honored with the International Institute Heritage Hall of Fame Award |
2005 |
October 24: Rosa Parks dies on in her Detroit home |
Rosa Parks Timeline |
Timelines Famous People |
History & Timelines Index |
Next Famous Person |
|