Event Timeline

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

1955 Stands Trial, Found Guilty Montgomery Bus Boycott begins

1956 Rosa Parks Fair Dept. Store at Montgomery loses her job

1956 Segregation on Montgomery Buses declared Unconstitutional United States Supreme Court Nov. 13, 1956

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 Pubic 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