ROSA (LOUISE) PARKS By: Joelle
CHILDHOOD She was born on February fourth of 1913 Her birth place is Tuskegee, Alabama Her birth name was Rosa Louise McCauley Her parents were James McCauley and Leona McCauley
SCHOOL At the age of eleven she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for girls, it was a private school She then attended the Alabama State Teachers College
ADULTHOOD She refused to give up her bus seat to a white man This started the bus boycott that lasted for three hundred and two days Rosa, Dr. Martin Luther king Jr., and others formed the Montgomery Improvement Association
AFTER HUSBAND’S DEATH After Raymond Parks’ death in 1977, Rosa founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development Rosa also got the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1996 She also got another medal in 1999; a Congressional Gold Medal
DEATH She spent her last years in Detroit living peacefully In 2005 she died at the age of ninety-two