Rosa (Louise) Parks

Rosa (Louise) ParksBy: Joelle 1913-2005

childhoodShe was born on February fourth of 1913Her birth place is Tuskegee, AlabamaHer birth name was Rosa Louise McCauleyHer parents were James McCauley and Leona McCauley

schoolAt the age of eleven she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for girls, it was a private schoolShe then attended the Alabama State Teachers College

AdulthoodShe refused to give up her bus seat to a white manThis started the bus boycott that lasted for three hundred and two daysRosa, Dr. Martin Luther king Jr., and others formed the Montgomery Improvement Association

After husbands deathAfter Raymond Parks death in 1977, Rosa founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-DevelopmentRosa also got the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996She also got another medal in 1999; a Congressional Gold Medal

DeathShe spent her last years in Detroit living peacefully In 2005 she died at the age of ninety-two