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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 w ...

Part two of term paper
... 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 stay at home with her mother. Rosa then married Raymond Parks on December 18, 1932. He supported Rosa’s desire to complete her formal educaton ,and in 1934 she recieved her high school diploma. The whole boycott started when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus when the bus- driver told her to move so a ...