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Timeline Of Rosa Parks Life



Feb. 4, 1913: Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. 1932: She marries Raymond Parks, a 29-year-old barber. 1943: Rosa Parks is elected secretary of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP. 1945: Rosa Parks registers to vote. Dec. 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested. Dec. 5, 1955: Rosa Parks is fined $14 and the case goes to trial. More than 5,000 people pack Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery and pass a resolution to continue the boycott. Jan. 4, 1956: As the boycott continues, the Montgomery City Commission doubles bus fares to 20 cents; children's fares raised to 10 cents. Jan. 30, 1956: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s home is bombed. Montgomery City Commission issues $500 reward in connection with bombing. Nov. 13, 1956: U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation of city buses is unconstitutional. Dec. 20 1956: Federal injunctions are served on the city, enforcing the Supreme Court's ruling on public transportation. Dec. 21, 1956: Black Montgomerians end boycott of the bus system.7 Aug. 28, 1963: Rosa Parks joins in the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech before a crowd of about 250,000 at the Lincoln Memorial. 1977: Parks' husband, Raymond Parks, dies. Her brother, Sylvester, also dies. 1992: Publishes her first book, "Rosa Parks: My Story" (New York: Dial Books) with Jim Haskins. Aug. 30, 1994: Parks is attacked and beaten in her home by an African-American man who wanted money and apparently did not recognize her. She wrote after the incident, "I pray for this young man and the conditions in our country that have made him this way." 1996: Rosa Parks receives highest U.S. civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 1999: Parks receives the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor from a bill widely supported by both houses of Congress. A lawsuit is filed on her behalf against BMG Entertainment, claiming the label allowed hip-hop duo Outkast to use her name without her permission for commercial purposes in their 1998 song "Rosa Parks." The suit was settled in 2005. 2002: CBS shows television movie about her life, "The Rosa Parks Story" starring Angela Bassett. Oct. 24, 2005: Rosa Parks dies at 92.



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