They joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Rosa and her husband Raymond wanted to do something about it. The bus driver only had to pay a $24 fine. She also saw a black man get beaten by a white bus driver for getting in his way. She was scared of the members of the KKK who had burned down black school houses and churches. Growing up Rosa had lived with racism in the south. Sometimes she would have to stand even if there were seats open up front. When Rosa would ride the bus to work, she would have to sit in the back in the seats marked "for colored". Places often had signs saying "For Colored Only" or "For Whites Only". They had different schools, different churches, different stores, different elevators, and even different drinking fountains. This meant that things were different for white people and black people.
Something she was very proud of.ĭuring this time, the city of Montgomery was segregated. Rosa worked part time jobs and went back to school, finally earning her high school diploma. Raymond was a successful barber who worked in Montgomery. Rosa left school to care for her mother.Ī few years later Rosa met Raymond Parks. Unfortunately, Rosa's education was cut short when her mother became very ill. Then she attended the Alabama State Teacher's College in order to try and get her high school diploma. After finishing up elementary school at Pine Level she attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. Rosa's mother wanted her to get a high school education, but this wasn't easy for an African-American girl living in Alabama in the 1920s.
Rosa went to the local school for African-American children where her mother was a teacher. Her parents separated while she was still young and she, with her mother and brother, went to live on her grandparent's farm in the nearby town of Pine Level. She had a younger brother named Sylvester. Her mother was a teacher and her father a carpenter.
Her full name was Rosa Louise McCauley and she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on Februto Leona and James McCauley. Rosa grew up in the southern United States in Alabama.
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