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Main Page	ROSA LOUISE PARKS                    Biography Rosa Louise Parks is nationally recognized as the Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement” in  America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a  Montgomery  Alabama bus, December 1,1955, triggered  a wave of protest December 5,1955, that  reverberated throughout the   United States  . Her quiet courageous act changed   America , its view of black people and redirected the course of history.  Mrs. Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley, February 4,19 13 in   Tuskegee ,  Alabama  . She was the first child of James and Leona Edwards McCauley. Her brother, Sylvester Mccauley, now deceased, was born August 20, 1915. Later, the family moved to Pine Level,  Alabama where  Rosa was reared and educated in the rural 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. After finishing Miss White’s School, she went on to Alabama State Teacher’s   College  High School  . She, however, was unable to graduate with her class, because of the illness of her grandmother Rose Edwards and later her death.  As Rosa prepared to returned 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.  Rosa received her high school diploma in 1934, after her marriage to Raymond Parks, December 18,1932. Raymond, now deceased, was born in Wedowee  Alabama ,   Randolph  County , February 12, 1903, received little formal education due to racial segregation.
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