Rosa parks was born on February 4,1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She
             was a civil rights leader. She attended Alabama State College, worked as a
             seamstress and as a housekeeper. Her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter,
             and her mother, Leona (Edward's) McCauley was a teacher. Rosa P. had one
             Her family lived in Tuskegee. When Rosa was two years-old her parents
             split up and she, her mother, and her brother moved to her grandparents farm in
             Nearby Pine Level, Alabama. Her grandparents were one of the few black
             families who owned their own land, rather than work for someone else. Although
             they were poor, they were able to raise enough food for all.
             During the first half of this century for all blacks living in America skin
             color affected every part of their lives. The South in particular was very racist.
             Slavery had been abolished only by some fifty years earlier, and blacks were still
             hated and were feared by whites because of skin color.
             Jim Crow had a law "separate but equal." The Supreme Court ruled in
             1896, that equal protection could not mean separate but equal facilities. Blacks
             were made to feel inferior to whites in every way. They were restricted in their
             choices of housing and jobs, were forced to attend segregated schools, and were
             prohibited from using many restaurants, movie theaters. Rosa Parks said, years
             later, "Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all of you were doing
             was acting like a normal human being, instead of crining. You didn't have to wait
             for a lynching. You died each time you found yourself face to face with this kind
             Rosa Parks didn't like attending a poor, one-room school, with few books
             or supplies, not being able to stop on her way home from school to get a soda
             or a candybar. She hated how they were parts for blacks like restaurants, trains,
             and bus and even being forced to give up her seat fo
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