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Family tree of Rosa PARKS. American politician. Born Rosa Louise MCCAULEY. American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. Born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama , United States Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. In addition to African ancestry, one of her great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish and one of her great-grandmothers was a Native American slave. It's claimed (in a Virginia newspaper article), by a cousin of Rosa Parks, that one of Rosa's great grandfathers was Scots-Irish and his wife a Creek Indian. The Scots-Irish g-grandfather being Capt. Charles M. T. McCauley, and g-great grandmother being a Creek Indian named Ghiogee. Rosa’s paternal grandparents, Anderson McCauley and Louisa Collins, overcame the shackles of bondage to forge a new legacy. Their daughter, Leona Edwards, and James McCauley, Rosa’s parents, instilled values that set the stage for Rosa’s defiance against Alabama segregation laws. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Rosa’s grandfather Sylvester is described in the book Rosa Parks: A Life in American History, 2021, page 6, as having been the son of a white plantation owner, likely named John Edwards, who raped Rosa’s great-grandmother. Rosa lived with her grandparents as a toddler. Showcases rarely seen materials that offer an intimate view of Rosa Parks and documents her life and activism—creating a rich opportunity for viewers to discover new dimensions to their understanding of this seminal figure. Rosa’s maternal grandparents were Sylvester Edwards and Rose Ann McLain. They were both born into slavery before Emancipation took place in 1865. This means that Rosa Parks herself was only two generations removed from slavery. Rosa Parks’ parents were James McCauley and Leona Edwards McCauley. James McCauley was a skilled carpenter and stonemason, and Leona Edwards McCauley was a teacher. James McCauley, the father of Rosa Parks, was born in Abbeville, Alabama. He was the eldest son of Anderson and Louisa McCauley. Rosa Parks (born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.—died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan) was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Rosa learned a lot about her family history while living with her grandparents. Her maternal great-grandparents had been slaves, and when slavery was abolished they continued to work for the same white family they had been enslaved to, with the understanding that they were free and could leave whenever they pleased. Often, however, Leona McCauley was elsewhere in the county teaching at far-flung black church schools, so Rosa was raised in part by her grandparents. From them Rosa Parks heard about Union general William Tecumseh Sherman's incendiary March to the Sea through Georgia; about President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, freeing them Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her parents were James and Lenora McCauley, James a carpenter and Lenora a schoolteacher. Rosa was in poor health as a child, suffering from chronic tonsillitis, and when her parents split up she went with her mother to Pine Level, a town near Montgomery, Alabama. "I'm thinking about some great African Americans I know" Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, General Colin Powell, Rosa Parks, Michael Jordan, Malcolm X, Spike Lee, Garrett Morgan, Justice Thurgood Marshall, Frederick Douglass On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. She came to be known as the "mother of the civil rights movement." Both of Rosa Parks' grandparents were Like everyone, Rosa Parks would have had 8 great-grandparents, of which James Percival was only one. Yet James Webb saw fit to mention her in his book Born Fighting, because, like Barack Obama, she apparently mentioned her Scotch-Irish ancestry in her own writings. That is surely significant. Showcases rarely seen materials that offer an intimate view of Rosa Parks and documents her life and activism—creating a rich opportunity for viewers to discover new dimensions to their understanding of this seminal figure. The materials are drawn extensively from the Rosa Parks Collection, a gift to the Library of Congress from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan 128 Copy quote In 2000, Troy University created the Rosa Parks Museum, located at the site of her arrest in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. In 2001, the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, consecrated Rosa Parks Circle, a 3.5-acre park designed by Maya Lin, an artist and architect best known for designing the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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