| 1931 March Scottsboro Boys (Rosa Macauley early activist with Raymond Parks to free Scottsboro Boys |
| 1932 Married Raymond Parks Dec. 18, 1932 |
| 1934 Received High School Diploma |
| 1949 Montgomery Branch NAACP Advisor to the Youth Council |
| 1955 Summer Attends Workshop at Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn. The first time she had ever been in an integrated learning environment. |
| 1955 August Meets Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 1955 Rosa Parks Arrested Dec. 1, 1955 |
| 1956 Boycotters Dec. 21, 1956 Return to Buses |
| 1957 Rosa Parks moves to Detroit transfers Church membership from St. Paul AME in Montgomery to St. Mathew AME in Detroit |
| 1957 Left Detroit a month later to work at Virginia University in Hampton |
| 1959 Returned to Detroit |
| 1961 Helped friend open sewing factory on the west-side of Detroit |
| 1963 Attends March on Washington Speaks at SCLC annual convention |
| 1964 Becomes Deaconess in the AME Church in Detroit |
| 1965 Participates in Selma to Montgomery March, 1965 |
| 1965 Rosa Parks begins working for Congressman John Conyers 1st District of Michigan in Detroit |
| 1977 Husband Raymond Parks dies |
| 1977 Only sibling Sylvester Macauley dies |
| 1979 Rosa Parks receives NAACP’s Spingarn Medal |
| 1979 Rosa Parks mother, Leona Macauley dies |
| 1987 Rosa Parks co-founds the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development with long time friend Elaine Eason Steele |
| 1988 Retires from Congressman Conyers Detroit office |
| 1989 First Pathways to Freedom ride |
| 1989 Bust of Rosa Parks unveiled at the Smithsonian |
| 1990 Rosa Parks has received numerous awards and honorary degrees including: |
| 1994 The ROSA PARKS PEACE PRIZE in Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1996 Rosa Parks takes her last complete Pathways to Freedom ride with students |
| 1996 Rosa Parks receives the Medal of Freedom from the 42nd President William J. Clinton |
| 1997 Public Act no. 28 of 1997 designated the first Monday following February 4th as Rosa Parks Day in the State of Michigan |
| 1998 Groundbreaking ceremony at her arrest site in Montgomery, Alabama for The Rosa Parks Museum and Library April 21, 1998 |
| 1998 Opens The Rosa L. Parks Learning Center Sept. 2, 1998 |
| 1998 Takes Pathways to Freedom ride to Nova Scotia and receives an honorary degree from Mt. Saint Vincent University |
| 1998 Inducted into the International Women’s Forum Hall of Fame |
| 1999 State of the Union Message January, 1999 bipartisan standing ovation |
| 1999 H.R. Bill 573 on Feb. 4, 1999 passed Congress making Mrs. Parks the 250th person to receive The Congressional Gold Medal of Honor |
| 1999 Appeared in May 2, 1999 episode of Touched By An Angel |
| 2000 Meets with Pope John-Paul II in St. Louis -Reads statement to the Pope asking for racial healing. |
| 2000 Opening of Rosa Parks Museum and Library at Troy State University Montgomery, Dec. 1, On the site where she was arrested Dec. 1. |
| 2000 Audience with the Queen of Swaziland and her 2 children-Sept. 2000 |
| 2001 Filming of “The Rosa Parks Story” CBS Television Movie – April 30 -May 23. |
| 2002 Showing of: “The Rosa Parks Story” CBS Television Movie February 24 |
| 2003 October 29, 2003 International Institute Heritage Hall of Fame Award |
| 2004 Mrs. Parks 91st Birthday Celebration – Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History |
| 2005 Mrs. Parks 92nd Birthday Celebration-Calvary Baptist Church 1st Cardinal Dearden Peace Award “Dear Mrs. Parks,” composed by “Classical Roots Series” Hannibal Lokumbe, for the DSO |
| 2005 Rosa Parks made her peaceful transition October 24 |
