He was 10 years her senior and a passionate civil rights activist. Parks performed janitorial work in exchange for tuition.Īt 19, she met and married barber Raymond Parks. She was educated at home by her mother, a school teacher, until the age of 11, when her family moved back to Montgomery and Parks enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, an all-black private school. "There's no law that says people have to suffer." "My mother taught me self-respect," Parks later recalled. Parks' father, James, headed North and was rarely heard from. At the age of 2, she moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Ala., with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Ala., to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher, on Feb.
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