![]() ![]() At age 19, she married Raymond Parks, a barber from Wedowee, Randolph County. Family illnesses forced McCauley to quit school at age 16, when she began cleaning houses for white people and taking in sewing. In 1924, 11-year-old McCauley enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, which offered a vocational curriculum of cooking, sewing, and housekeeping under the instruction of northern whites. There, she began her education in an all-black school with a single teacher serving all 50 students. She spent much of her childhood living with her maternal grandparents in Pine Level, a small town in southeast Montgomery County. ![]() ![]() Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley, a carpenter and stonemason, and Leona Edwards, a teacher. Parks continued to work for civil rights causes during her entire life and was awarded the nation’s highest honors for her role in the movement. to the forefront as the movement’s leader. Her 1955 arrest in Montgomery for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and set in motion a chain of events that resulted in ground-breaking civil rights legislation and helped to bring Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is one of the most enduring symbols of the tumultuous civil rights era of the mid-twentieth century. ![]()
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