But to me, that was a way of life we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. Later, Parks remembered how buses took white students to their school, but black students had to walk to theirs: There were black schools and white schools. Rosa started school in 1919 when she was 6 years old. Rosa and her brother Sylvester were brought up by their grandparents. Her mother taught school in another town. Her father left home to find work when Rosa was 2 years old. One of her great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and went to Charleston, South Carolina as an indentured servant. Her parents were James and Leona McCauley. Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. Her refusal to let others treat her differently was an important symbol in the campaign against racial segregation Early years After that, black people were able to sit wherever they wanted to on the bus. Like so many others she was tired of being treated as a lower class person because of the color of her skin. She was a member of the local chapter of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
During this time, when there were no white seats for white people, black people were told to get up out of their seat. While she sat in a seat in the middle of the bus, the bus driver told her to move to the back of the bus so a white passenger could take the seat in the front of the bus. Parks is best known for what she did in her home town of Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (Febru– October 24, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist.
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