Rosa Parks- A timeline

1913-2005

DECADES OF

Rosa Parks

During the Civil Rights Movement, Rosa Parks was a defiant women in the eyes of the opressors. She stood for freedom, liberty, and justice as she sat at the front of the bus where no Black woman or man should have been.

1900

1913

Rosa Parks - Who is She?

1914

Rosa Parks Education Journey from 1914-1933

1940

1943

Rosa Parks is selected as secretary of the Montgomery NAACP branch and then later, in 1949, becomes advisor to the youth counsel of the NAACP.

1950

Dec. 1, 1955

Rosa Parks arrested and fined for refusing her seat at the front of the bus.

Dec. 5th 1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Dec. 21st 1965

Supreme Court ruled that buses must be integrated

2000

Oct. 24th , 2005

Although the Supreme Court ruling was a huge feat for the Black Community, it wasnt enough. The Civil Rights Movement finally eneded in 1968 through the efforts of Rosa Parks, MLK, and many more figures. In her final days, Parks was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1996, and died in 2005.