1943: Parks joined NAACP in Montgomery March 1955: Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat (age 15, first to refuse to give up seat) August 28, 1955: Lynching of Emmett Till December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. December 5, 1955: Start of Montgomery Bus Boycott. 381 days January, 1956: City commissioners unsuccessfully tried to trick the boycotters by saying the boycott was over. November 13, 1956: Supreme Court ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional. December 20, 1956: End of Montgomery Bus Boycott 1988: Parks retired 2001: Parks's house placed in the National Registry of Historic Places October 24, 2005: Death of Rosa Parks in her apartment February 4, 2013: Rosa Parks's would-be 100th birthday