1932: She marries Raymond Parks, a barber and civil rights activist.
1943: Parks joins the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
1944: She becomes secretary to the NAACP chapter president, Edgar Nixon.
1955: Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery city bus, leading to her arrest and the Montgomery bus boycott.
1956: The Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of public schools is unconstitutional.
1957: Parks moves to Detroit with her husband and becomes active in the civil rights movement there.
1960: She meets Martin Luther King Jr. and becomes a supporter of his nonviolent civil rights movement.
1963: Parks attends the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where King gives his "I Have a Dream" speech.
1965: The Voting Rights Act is passed, which prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
1979: Parks receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Jimmy Carter.
1995: She dies of natural causes at the age of 92.