Rosa Parks was a remarkable woman. She took the fight for civil rights in her own hands. She worked as a seamstress sewing clothes. One day she went home tired from work and refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, and then she got arrested. This was the incident, which started the bus boycott, and forced the bus company, to give up the segregation of busses. That was a real victory for African-Americans, since the liberation of the slaves. Rosa Parks was shortly after fired from her work in the department store, though she had been working there for 25 years. However, that was only a small sacrifice and the NAACP whom she was working for in her spare time, shortly after gave her a fulltime job as their youth leader, and she also worked as a secretary in Montgomery Branch.
Rosa Louise McCauley, better known as Rosa Parks, mother of civil rights, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4th in 1913, to James and Leona McCauley. Rosa Parks grew up on a small farm in Pine Level, Alabama where they moved to after she turned two. Together with her parents, grandparents and her brother. Her mother, who was a teacher, taught her to read before she even went to school, so compared to other children in her situation, she was a bit smarter.
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