A life and a movement

Feb. 4, 1913: Rosa McCauley is born in Tuskegee, Ala. 1932: She marries Raymond Parks, 29, a barber. 1943: Rosa Parks is elected secretary of the Montgomery, Ala.,

branch of the NAACP. 1954: In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Courtr ules thatsegr egation in public schools is unconstitutional. It paves the way for broad desegregation. Dec. 1, 1955: In Montgomery, Parks refuses to give up her

seat on a city bus to a white man, as required by local law.

She is arrested. Dec. 5: Parks is 2 ned $ 14. More than 5,000 people pack Holt

Street Baptist Church in Montgomery and pass a resolution

backing a bus boycott. Jan. 30, 1956: The Montgomery home of civil rights leader

Martin Luther King Jr. is bombed. Two days later, groups

backing Parks 2 le a federal lawsuit challenging segregation

on buses. June 4: A panel of U.S. judges strikes down Montgomery’s

bus segregation laws. Nov. 13: The Supreme Courtr ules segregation of city buses is

unconstitutional. The boycott ends about a month later, after

federal injunctions enforce the court’s ruling. January 1957: King helps establish the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference. It becomes a key organizer of the

civil rights movement. 1957: Parks and her husband move to Detroit. Aug. 28, 1963: Parks joins March on Washington, where

King gives his “ I Have a Dream” speech before about

250,000 att he Lincoln Memorial. 1965: Parks begins working for Rep. John Conyers, D- Mich.

She retires in 1988, after helping to make Martin Luther

King Jr. Day a national holiday. 1977: Raymond Parks dies. 1979: Rosa Parks receives Spingarn Award, the NAACP’s highest honor for civil rights. 1996: She receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In

1999, she receives the Congressional Gold Medal. They’re

the nation’s highest civilian honors. Dec. 1, 2000: Rosa Parks Museum and Library opens at Troy

State University- Montgomery. Monday: Parks dies at 92. Montgomery Advertiser