Rosa Parks

Who though that on a cold wintry day, December 1, 1955 when young Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man that it would mark the beginning of the civil rights movement in a modernizing America.
Rosa Parks was an African American woman born February 4, 1913 in Alabama under the name Rosa McCauley. Her father and mother both held down respectable jobs, her father James McCauley being a carpenter and her mother Leona Edwards a teacher. She was home schooled for some time until the age of eleven when she moved into boarding with her aunt and began attending The Montgomery Industrial school for Girls and was known around her neighborhood for standing up to white people. In December of 1932 Rosa McCauley married Raymond Parks, although they met under bad terms and somewhat disliked each other when they looked deeper they found themselves in love. The now Rosa Parks was soon hired to the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) as a...