Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States, on 4th February 1913. Her mother, Leona Edwards, was a teacher and her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter. She grew up on a farm just outside the city of Montgomery, Alabama.
After her parents separated her mother took her and her younger brother to live with their grandparents in pine level.
Her grandparents used to be slaves, therefore they had strong beliefs in equal rights for white and black people.
Aged 19, Rosa married Raymond Parks. On the 1st of December 1955, the bus that she was traveling on became full. So the bus driver told her to get off. She refused to get off. The driver got the police who arrested her for violating the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa was fined $14 for court fees.
Despite being found guilty, the boycott continued for 381 days and
one of the most successful anti-segregation movements in history.
The African-American community either walked to work and school or took
black operated taxis. Many of the buses were found empty, so the company lost lots of money.
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