Raymond, now deceased was born in Wedowee, Alabama, Randolph County, February 12, 1903, received little formal education due to racial segregation. She received her high school diploma in 1934, after her marriage to Raymond Parks, December 18, 1932. She, however, was unable to graduate with her class, because of the illness of her grandmother Rose Edwards and later her death.Īs Rosa Parks prepared to return to Alabama State Teacher’s College, her mother also became ill, therefore, she continued to take care of their home and care for her mother while her brother, Sylvester, worked outside of the home. After finishing Miss White’s School, she went on to Alabama State Teacher’s College High School. When she completed her education in Pine Level at age eleven, her mother, Leona, enrolled her in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls (Miss White’s School for Girls), a private institution. Later, the family moved to Pine Level, Alabama where Rosa was reared and educated in the rural school. Her brother, Sylvester McCauley, now deceased, was born August 20, 1915. She was the first child of James and Leona Edwards McCauley. Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley, Februin Tuskegee, Alabama. Her quiet courageous act changed America, its view of black people and redirected the course of history. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest Decemthat reverberated throughout the United States.
Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America.
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