1. “Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”
Rosa Parks
“Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement”
*February 4, 1913-October 24, 2005*

2. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
Rosa was born on February 4, 1913.
Her place of birth was Tuskegee, Alabama.
Rosa grew up on a farm with her mother, brother and grandparents.

3. The Schooling of Rosa Parks
Rosa attended a school that was for African American children.
The school was only open for five months a year.
This school only went up to the sixth grade.
When Rosa turned eleven she as sent to Montgomery to continue her schooling.
Five years after she was sent to Montgomery she had to leave to return home so she could take care of her grandmother who was sick.

4. Rosa’s Adult Years In 1932 Rosa married Raymond Parks.
Rosa was finally able to graduate high school in 1934.
The couple worked for the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

5. Rosa’s Greatest Achievement
Rosa refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. When she did this she helped to start the modern civil rights movement.
Rosa’s arrest started a boycott on the city bus line that lasted 381 days.
This boycott led to the Supreme Court ruling in 1956 that there be desegregation of public buses.

6. Acknowledgements