The History Of Rosa Parks-
Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She is often referred to as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement". Her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus triggered the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott and set in motion the test case for the desegregation of public transportation.
Rosa Parks was the granddaughter of former slaves and the daughter of James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a rural schoolteacher. She grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where she attended the all-black Alabama State College. In 1932 Parks marrie…
