Canaan Valley. Canaan Valley (local /kÉËneÉªn/) is an oval, bowl-like upland valley in northeastern Tucker County, West Virginia, USA. Within it are extensive wetlands and the headwaters of the Blackwater River which spills out of the valley at Blackwater Falls.
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (nee NÃ©e), edwards a, teacher And McCauley, mccauley a. carpenter
In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the cityâs racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Parkâs historic act of civil disobedience. âThe mother of the civil rights movement,â as Rosa Parks is known, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913.