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
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

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