Rosa Lee Parks Rosa Lee Parks was an African American woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. Rosa Parks refusal helped bring about the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa Lee McCauley was the daughter of James and Leona (Edwards) McCauley. She was born in Tuskegee,Alabama on February 4, 1913. Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress. Rosa Parks was well educated in a rural schoolhouse. When she completed her education in Pine Level at the age of eleven her mother enrolled her in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private institution. She went to Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes for eleven and twelth grade. She was unable to graduate because of her grandmother’s illness, Rosa Edwards. After her grandmother’s death she decided to return to school, but her mother got sick so she had to ....

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