Rosa's childhood
Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa was raised on her grandparents farm in Pine Level, Alabama. Rosa McCauley had to walk to her elementary school because the bus system would not let black students to ride with the white students. She later went to the Alabama State Teachers College High school, but her grandmother and mother both got very sick and she had to drop out. Instead of going to a different school she just got a job at a shirt factory in Montgomery. Later at 19 years old, Rosa met Raymond Parks and they got married. Rosa Louise McCauley was now Rosa Parks. With Raymond's help and support, Rosa went and got her high school degree in 1933.