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| 1955 | Arrest |  |
| 1st Dec 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
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| 1st Dec 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
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| 1955 | Jim Crow Laws | |
| 1st Dec 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
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| 1955 | Montgomery Bus Boycott | |
| 1st Dec 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
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| 2005 | Death | |
| 25th Oct 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
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| 2005 | Reform | |
| 26th Jan Montgomery Condoleezza Rice Attends a memorial service in Montgomery, Alabama, in Rice's home state, for Rosa Parks, an inspiration for the American Civil Rights Movement
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| 26th Jan Montgomery Parks' act of civil disobedience inspired blacks in Montgomery to boycott the city's buses for more than a year and to successfully challenge the Jim Crow laws that confined them to second-class status in the city.
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| 25th Oct 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
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