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April 14, 2005: Parks and the hip-hop group Outkast reach an out-of-court settlement regarding their 1998 song "Rosa Parks." October 24, 2005: Parks dies at the age of 92 Timeline of Rosa Parks Life 1913: Rosa Louise McCauley is born on February 4th in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, a small town in Alabama. She was the first child of James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona Edwards McCauley, a teacher. Rosa had a younger brother named Sylvester. A timeline covering the life of Rosa Parks, 1913-2005. Rosa Parks (1913-2005) Published with Jim Haskins Rosa Parks: My Story. New York: Dial Books. 1994. Rosa Parks meets with the Pope in St. Louis and reads a statement to the Pope asking for racial healing. 2005: Rosa Parks dies Rosa Parks dies in her Detroit home on October 24th. Rosa Parks' funeral service, seven hours long, was held at the Greater Grace Temple Church on November 2nd. She died of progressive dementia. 2006: statue Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter.In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave. Rosa Parks boarded a bus and sat in the first row of the ‘blacks’ section of the bus. She had not noticed that the bus driver was James Blake, the driver that had driven off without her in 1943. After a number of white people got on the bus the bus driver insisted that four black passengers including Parks should stand so that white A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks. ROSA PARKS' BIOGRAPHY A Resource for Teaching Rosa Parks. Photo by LeRoy Henderson View the timeline in table format rosa louise parks biography Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. 2000-The Rosa parks Library and Meseum dedicated at troy university in montgomery, Alabama. 2005-Rosa parks death from complications of pregressive dementia 2006-Statue of Rosa parks placed in national Statuary hall in Washington, D.C. "Rosa Parks Timeline." Rosa Parks Timeline. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 May 2014. February 4, 1913: Birth of Rosa Parks 1943: Parks joined NAACP in Montgomery March 1955: Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat (age 15, first to refuse to give up seat) August 28, 1955: Lynching of Emmett Till December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. December 5, 1955: Start of Montgomery Bus Boycott. 381 days Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. 1917>>Rosa moves to Pine Level, Alabama 1928>>Rosa McCauley's grandmother becomes ill and dies 1929>>Rosa is enrolled in Ms.White's School for Girls 1932>>Rosa marries Raymond Parks and becomes Rosa Parks at age 19 1934>>Parks receives high school diploma 1943>>12 years before the boycott, Rosa is kicked of a bus for refusing to give up her seat. Parks (née McCauley) married Raymond Parks in 1932. They were married until his death on August 19, 1977. Raymond Parks was a self-educated civil rights activist, as well as a barber. Rosa Parks, the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" was one of the most important citizens of the 20th century. Mrs. Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama when, in December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was tried and convicted of violating a local ordinance. Her act sparked a citywide boycott of the In October of 2005, Rosa Park's died of natural causes in her appartment on the east side of the city. She was given a grand funeral, and let lie in honor in the rotunda of the U.S. Capital. Parks was the 31st person, the first American who had not been a U.S. government official, and the second private person to be honored in this way. Activist Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott that partially ended racial segregation. Read facts about her birth, accomplishments, and more. Rosa Parks quietly died in her apartment in Detroit, Michigan. She had been diagnosed the previous year with progressive dementia. Her death was marked by several memorial services, among them lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., where an estimated 50,000 people viewed her casket The Birth of Rosa Park In 1943, Rosa Parks joined the NAACP and she was a great element to the organization. She worked with the organization's state president Rosa Parks's brother, named Sylvester McCauley, was two years younger than Rosa. To Kill A Mockingbird Historical Timeline - by Alex & Sam M. Civil Rights English Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens.
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