Rosa Parks raised Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Alabama. She
would later attend the Alabama State Teachers College. Her
mother was a teacher and her father a carpenter. She attained
Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, graduated from the all
African American Booker T. Washington High School in 1928. She
attained Alabama State College in Montgomery for a short time.
She would become known as the “Mother” of the Civil Rights
movement. In 1943 she was elected to serve as the secretary for
the National Association for the Achievement of Colored People
youth. On December 1, 1955 she had no intentions of starting a
movement. Parks recognized the bus driver as someone who evicted
her from the bus some twelve years earlier for refusing to
reenter the bus from the rear. Many other African Americans had
been arrested for defying the racist practices before Parks.
NAACP and church officials like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
decided that Park’s arrest would provide an excellent catalyst
for a successful boycott. Afte