Death: October 24 , 2005
Famous For: Not giving up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus.
Born Rosa Louise McCauley, She had to endure the hard times of the Civil Rights movement and Segregation. Her mother and father seperated and Rosa's mother moved her to a little town in Alabama.She never went to college , but she married this man by the name of Raymond Parks who was a barber and also a memeber of the (NAACP) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Thanks to him she got her high school degree in 1933. During education years Rosa attended many segregated schools in Montegomery , Alabama. To learn more about this wonderful, Strong black woman http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715 .
Rosa Parks on the Bus in Montegomery ,Alabama
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