A Brief Biography of Rosa Parks

Nearly 200 years ago after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, slavery was no longer allowed but America was still segregated. Segregation in many public places continued especially in the South. At this time segregation was legal. In 1892 the Supreme Court had ruled that a state could separate whites and blacks, as long as the services were equal. On February 4, 1913 Rosa Parks was born. Her real name was Rosa Louise McCauley Parks . The schools Rosa Parks are Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, Alabama State Teachers College. Rosa parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama. He mothers name is Leona McCauley which is a teacher. Her father is James McCauley, who works as a carpenter. Rosa Parks had a sibling a young brother called Sylvester McCauley. He was born on 25th August 1915 and he died on 27th November 1977. He died of cancer. In her younger years she was sick much of the time, and as a result, was a small child. Her parents eventually separated and her mother took her and her brother and moved to Pine Level, a town adjacent to Montgomery, Alabama.

There Rosa spent the rest of her childhood on her grandparents' farm. Her childhood in Montgomery helped her to develop strong roots in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Rosa did not attend a public school until the age of eleven. Starting with the seventh grade, Rosa had to go to school in Montgomery, Alabama. In Montgomery, Rosa became more aware of the segregation between the Blacks and the Whites. Rosa would walk to school on most days, except in bad weather when she would take the streetcar. She had to sit in the back of the streetcar because that is where Blacks were supposed to sit. She also noticed the different drinking fountains for the black and the ...

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She is an inspiring women whose been hidden for far too long. By one brave woman our world will be forever thankful. She spoke the voice of many African Americans who probably did not have the courage to say no to the bus driver to give up her seat. She was sometimes known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movements" because of her sense of leadership and justice. Rosa Parks was an inspiration to people because she stood up for herself! Even though she went to jail because of that, she proves to other people that she will not change her ways of living. Rosa Parks is very inspirational to me because she taught me to stick up for myself and to stick up for what I believe in. She is my inspiration and I would recommend people to research and do a paper on her. She is a strong woman who cared about equality. She changed how our world is now of days.