Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama as Rosa Louise-Lee Parks. She was raised in her grandparent's house in Pine Level, Montgomery. Her mother's name was Leona Edwards and her father's name was James McCauley, they met in an African Methodist Episcopal Church. James was a carpenter and a builder, and Leona was a teacher at the church they attended and at Tuskegee Institute. Leona and James later married in Pine Level on April 12, 1912. Rosa who was named after her maternal grandmother Rose arrived a year later (2000. . .Brinkley).
             Rosa's parents moved to Abbeville with James's family because he was tired of Tuskegee. A few years later Leona left to her parent's house with baby Rosa, and soon after her husband followed. James came and left looking for work, once he left for two years, came back for a short while, then when Rosa was about five years old he left again and did not see him until she was an adult and married (1994. . . Hull). Picking cotton was done by Rosa and her family and every pound they picked they got fifty cents a day. Soon the cotton gin which separated the fibers from the seed therefore they had to pick a hundred pounds of cotton then they would get a dollar (1992. . .Patrick). Rosa's grandfather's father was a white plantation owner named John Edwards' and his mother was a slave housekeeper and seamstress.
             Rosa's Grandfather Sylvester's parents died and an overseer named Battle took over. Battle mistreated and beat Sylvester so much that when he got older he had such a hatred for white people that he taught all his kids not to take anything from anyone and Rosa was taught that as well. December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was riding on a bus when she refused to give her seat up to a white man. The police where called and Rosa was arrested. Martin Luther King Jr. and several hundred others refused
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