| Years |
Age |
Events |
| 1913 |
0 |
Born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4 |
| 1919 |
6 |
Moved to Montgomery, Alabama |
| 1924-1928 |
11 |
Attended Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes |
| 1929 |
16 |
Withdrew from college to care for her mother |
| 1932 |
19 |
Married Raymond A. Parks on December 18 |
| 1933 |
20 |
Joined the NAACP |
| 1934 |
21 |
Received high school diploma |
| 1943 |
30 |
Elected secretary of the Montgomery branch of the NAACP |
| 1944 |
31 |
Registered to vote |
| 1945 |
32 |
Voted in the primary election |
| 1949 |
36 |
Became advisor to the NAACP Youth Council |
| 1952 |
39 |
Attended a workshop at the Highlander Folk School |
| 1955 |
42 |
Refused to give up her bus seat on December 1, arrested |
| 1956 |
43 |
Convicted of disorderly conduct on December 5 |
| 1956 |
43 |
Montgomery Bus Boycott begins on December 5 and lasts until December 20 |
| 1956 |
43 |
U.S. Supreme Court rules bus segregation unconstitutional |
| 1957 |
44 |
Moved to Detroit, Michigan |
| 1963 |
50 |
Attended the March on Washington |
| 1965 |
52 |
Witnessed the signing of the Voting Rights Act |
| 1965-1988 |
52 |
Worked as a receptionist for U.S. Representative John Conyers, Jr. |
| 1977 |
64 |
Raymond Parks died |
| 1979 |
66 |
Received the NAACP Spingarn Medal |
| 1980 |
67 |
Received the Martin Luther King, Jr., Award from the National Education Association |
| 1992 |
79 |
Released her memoir, “My Story” |
| 1996 |
83 |
Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom |
| 1999 |
86 |
Received the Congressional Gold Medal |
| 2005 |
92 |
Died in Detroit, Michigan, on October 24 |
