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Raymond Parks was born
Rosa's husband, Raymond Parks, was born in Dawsonville, Georgia. -
Parents marry
Rosa Parks parents get married and they have Rosa and her brother, Sylvester. -
Rosa Parks was born
Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Ku Klux Klan
When Rosa was 6 years old, the Ku Klux Klan attacked the African Americans in her area. Luckily, she wasn't attacked. -
Moved to Montgomery
Rosa and her family move to Montgomery, Alabama, where the boycott started. -
job at Maxwell Field
Rosa got a job at Maxwell Field, the local Army Air Force base. -
Rosa and Raymond married
Rosa and Raymond Parks got married. -
Edgar Daniel Nixon
Rosa met Edgar Nixon. He was the president of the Montgomery Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Joined the NAACP
Rosa joined the NAACP, a national organization that protests against racial discrimination, lynching, brutality, and unequal education. -
Finally a registered voter
Rosa took the test to get registered to vote after 3 attempts and finally passed. She was now a registered voter. -
Bus seat refusal
Rosa Parks refused to get up out of her seat on the Montgomery city bus when a white man demanded to have it. s a result, she was arrested. -
Bus boycott
Rosa officially started the bus boycott -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rosa meets Martin Luther King Jr. This was important because he had a huge impact on making segregation illegal. -
Segregation becomes illegal
Court ruled in their favor that segregation on the Montgomery buses was unconstitutional. -
Raymond Parks death
Raymond Parks died on August 19, 1977. -
Rosa Parks death
Rosa Parks died on October 24, 2005.
