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Rosa Parks Biography

Historical biography and chronological timeline for Rosa Parks, based on 6 World History Database records associated with United States of America.

6 records1955–20055 events1 places

Chronological biography

1955

Arrest of Rosa Parks1 December 1955
Politics / Civil Rights

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, urged and planned by ED Nixon (head of the Montgomery NAACP chapter and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) and led by Martin Luther King follows Rosa Parks arrest. Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to comply with the Jim Crow laws that required her to give up her seat to a white man

Jim Crow Laws1 December 1955
Politics / Civil Rights

Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to comply with the Jim Crow laws that required her to give up her seat to a white man

Montgomery Bus Boycott1 December 1955
Politics / Civil Rights

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, urged and planned by ED Nixon (head of the Montgomery NAACP chapter and a member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) and led by Martin Luther King follows Rosa Parks arrest

2005

Reform of Civil Rights26 January 2005
Politics / Civil Rights · Montgomery

Parks act of civil disobedience inspired blacks in Montgomery to boycott the citys buses for more than a year and to successfully challenge the Jim Crow laws that confined them to second-class status in the city. Condoleezza Rice Attends a memorial service in Montgomery, Alabama, in Rices home state, for Rosa Parks, an inspiration for the American Civil Rights Movement

Death of Rosa Parks25 October 2005
Politics / Civil Rights · Montgomery

American civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies age 92 years old, 50 years earlier, Parks had famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and in doing so catalyzed the American civil rights movement

Reform of Civil Rights25 October 2005
Politics / Civil Rights · Montgomery

American civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks dies age 92 years old, 50 years earlier, Parks had famously refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus and in doing so catalyzed the American civil rights movement

Record provenance

This biography is assembled from World History Database records filtered by country and personal-name fields. Exact duplicate display records are removed. The database is an index rather than a complete narrative biography; formal research should verify entries against relevant primary or specialist sources.