Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was a central figure in the United States civil rights movement. Her full name was Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. She ived in Tukegee, Alabama. On February 4, 1913, Rosa Parks instigated the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955 to 1956. She did this by refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger as required by law. Although secretary of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, Rosa Parks acted alone. Her defiance and the successful boycott cost her her livelihood until he moved to Detroit in 1957. Her defiance and the successful

boycott alo inspired later challenge to racial segregation. Rosa Parks had a memoir. It was called: Rosa Parks. It was published in 1992.

Rosa Louie McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama to Jame and Lona McCauley. At age two her family moved to Pine Level, Alabama, to live with her maternal grandparent. Her mother, a schoolteach, taught Rosa at homw until age eleven when he moved to Montgomery to live with her aunt. She enrolled in a private school, the Montgomery Indutrial chool for Girls, where he cleaned clarooms to pay her tuition. Later he attendedBrookerT. Washington High School but was forced to leave to take care of her sick mother. In 1932, he married Raymond Parks, to whom she would remain married until his death n1977. Though Raymond had very little formal educaion, he was self-taught and supported his wife's deire to return to school to receive her high school diploma,which she did in 1934.

Mrs. parks worked as a seamstre at a Montgomery department store in 1955. On December first of that year, she boarded a city bu and sat in row at the front of the "colored" section. The whites only section in the front of the bu filled up and a white man was left standing. The bus driver demanded that Mrs. Parks and three other patron in the colored ection give up their seats so the white man could it. The other three people moved but Mrs. Parks had been pushed around enough and refused