![]() At age 19, she married Raymond Parks, a barber from Wedowee, Randolph County. Family illnesses forced McCauley to quit school at age 16, when she began cleaning houses for white people and taking in sewing. In 1924, 11-year-old McCauley enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, which offered a vocational curriculum of cooking, sewing, and housekeeping under the instruction of northern whites. ![]() ![]() There, she began her education in an all-black school with a single teacher serving all 50 students. She spent much of her childhood living with her maternal grandparents in Pine Level, a small town in southeast Montgomery County. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley, a carpenter and stonemason, and Leona Edwards, a teacher. Parks continued to work for civil rights causes during her entire life and was awarded the nation’s highest honors for her role in the movement. ![]() to the forefront as the movement’s leader. Her 1955 arrest in Montgomery for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and set in motion a chain of events that resulted in ground-breaking civil rights legislation and helped to bring Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() Rosa Parks (1913-2005) is one of the most enduring symbols of the tumultuous civil rights era of the mid-twentieth century. ![]()
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