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Rosa Parks Timeline
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Rosa Parks Timeline
1998
1955
2003
1913
- The Rosa Parks Museum and Library opened at her arrest site in Montgomery, Alabama.
- Rosa Parks was inducted into the International Women's Forum Hall of Fame.
- She was honored with the International Institute Heritage Hall of Fame Award.
- She was also diagnosed with progressive dementia.
- Rosa had gotten arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat for white passenger, and had also gotten fined $14.
- Rosa Parks was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee Alabama.
- Her parents were James and Leona McCauley.
- She also had a brother named Sylvester.
1955
1998
1943
2005
1913
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1943
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2005
- She had lost her job as a seam stress at Montgomery Fair
- The Montgomery buses became desegregated and black passengers were free to sit where every they'd like.
- Rosa had tried to vote but it had gotten denied.
- In the same year she also became a member of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is an organization that promote the use of the court to restore the legal rights of black americans.)
- Rosa had died in her Detroit Home.
- Her funeral service was 7 hours long and was held at the Greater Grace Temple Church.
- President Clinton awarded Rosa with the 250th Congressional Gold Medal of Honor, the highest honor a civilian can receive in the United States.
- She met Pope St. Louis and read him a statement asking him for racial healing.
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