Rosa Parks Childhood
In the 20th century Rosa Parks sparked the American Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. (Badertscher, 2017). Nobody knows exactly where in Tuskegee she was born although there is a photograph. The photo pictures a run down house with a rock thrown through a front window, a brick chimney, and six steps leading to the porch (red book). Her parents were James and Leona McCauley. Her mother was a teacher. Her father was a carpenter who ended up leaving when Rosa was two years old. At this point, her, Leona, and her younger brother Sylvester lived in Pine Level with their maternal grandmother who Rosa was named after. (small book). Although coming from a struggling household, parks was still able to make her impact on the world.
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She would memorise bible verses, quoted scriptures, and learned music in sunday school. Rosa Parks said “The church, with its musical rhythms and echoes of Africa, thrilled me when I was young.” She attended the African Methodist Episcopal Church.(red book) Because of blacks being so discriminated against, they would go to church as a place that they could feel safe, share news, and connect organizations. Religion helped Rosa Parks want good for the world and equality for everyone.
Rosa Parks Education
Rosa got a fairly good education despite living in a time she was discriminated against for being black. Her mother taught her when she was young. She eventually went to a school for only black children, they would walk miles to school as buses full of white children drove by. Rosa stated that “The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.” (small book) highschool and college
Meeting her husband they were both active members of the NAACP
Bus