Rosa+Parks+(CM)

"All I was doing was trying to get home from work" - Rosa Parks. Rosa Parks is known for her bravery on the day she didn't give up her seat to a white person, but what other significant things did she do? What are the details about her? Rosa Park's life was worse than the lives we live today.

Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to James McCauley and Leona Edwards. She had one younger brother named Sylvester. When she was little, she had poor health and suffered from chronic tonsillitis. Later her parents got a divorce and she grew up on a farm with her grandparents, mother, and brother.

The education that she got wasn't much better as she went through life. She was home schooled until she was eleven, then she was enrolled into an all girls school. As she later grew up, she went to a laboratory school but she was forced to drop out so that she could take care of her grandmother and mother because they had both become ill.

As she grew up, the conditions of her life were okay, but the racism that was around her was impossible to ignore. Even when people were walking down the street, her grandfather stood outside the front door with a shotgun. But even with all of this going on, Rosa managed to find someone that she loved. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks at her mothers house. After she married she had to get many jobs, and she also managed to finish her education, which was very difficult for African Americans to do.