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Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee to Leona, a school teacher, and James McCauley, a skilled carpenter and stonemason. Shortly after her birth, her family moved into this house in Abbeville situated on a 260-acre farm owned by her grandparents, Anderson and Louisa McCauley. Before she was "the first lady of civil rights," Rosa Parks was Rosa Louise McCauley, born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee to Leona, a school teacher, and James McCauley, a skilled carpenter and This historical marker commemorates a modest country farmhouse that was built by Rosa Parks’ grandfather, Anderson McCauley in 1884. After Rosa Park’s birth on February 4th, 1913, in Tuskegee, she and her family moved to this farmhouse where they lived for two years. In 1915, Parks' parents separated and she moved to Pine Level. Ninety-one years later the home was preserved and given a Civil rights pioneer Rosa McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Shortly after her birth her parents James and Leona McCauley, moved here to a 260 acre farm owned by her grandparents, Anderson and Louisa McCauley. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913 – 2005) was an iconic activist during the mid twentieth century civil rights movement. Born in Tuskegee, Parks later moved with her mother to Pine Level located near Montgomery, Alabama. [Troy University's, Rosa Parks Library and Museum dedication ceremony, Montgomery, Alabama, Dec. 1, 2000] Photographs show guests and activities at Troy University's dedication of the Rosa Parks Library and Museum, held at the Davis Theater, Montgomery, Alabama and possibly other venues. Civil rights activitists depicted at Postcard showing exterior of Rosa Parks' birthplace and childhood home in Tuskegee, Alabama. 500: a: Caption label from exhibit Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words--Early Life and Activism: The Birth of Rosa McCauley. Shortly after their marriage James and Leona McCauley moved to Tuskegee, Alabama. James found work in Macon County building houses. 33 photographs in 1 album : chiefly b&w prints ; album 29 x 24 cm. | Photographs include portraits of McCauley, Edwards and Collins family members; postcards of Parks' childhood homes at Pine Level and Tuskegee, Alabama; portraits of her mother and father, Leona and James McCauley; brother Sylvester McCauley; husband Raymond Parks and a death portrait of Raymond Parks grandfather, Rev. Jacob Rosa Louise McCauley, the maternal name for Rosa Louise McCauley Parks, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama.. The second childhood home of Rosa Parks. Soon after Rosa Park’s birth, her parents moved to an 160!acre farm where she spent her childhood. Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, is celebrated as a pivotal figure in the American civil rights movement. Her most notable act of defiance occurred on December 1, 1955, when she refused to yield her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Up from Pine Level Nobody knows exactly where in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913. The town newspaper reported that the skies were clear and it was unseasonably warm that day, but beyond that, and the fact that she was named after her maternal grandmother, Rose, virtually no reliable documentation exists on the early years of Rosa Louise Parks. 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 Parks Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley, a carpenter and stonemason, and Leona Edwards, a teacher. She spent much of her childhood living with her maternal grandparents in Pine Level, a small town in southeast Montgomery County . Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee Alabama in 1913. She went to school in a country schoolhouse and then in Montgomery . She never graduated because of family health issues. Explore genealogy for Rosa (McCauley) Parks born 1913 Tuskegee, Macon, Alabama, United States died 2005 Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States including ancestors + 5 photos + 14 genealogist comments + questions + more in the free family tree community. Parks was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Early Life and Family. Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. 201 E Rosa Parks Ave, Tuskegee AL, is a Single Family home that contains 1728 sq ft and was built in 1830.It contains 1 bathroom. The Zestimate for this Single Family is $94,300, which has decreased by $5,187 in the last 30 days.The Rent Zestimate for this Single Family is $949/mo, which has increased by $949/mo in the last 30 days. 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. Up from Pine Level Nobody knows exactly where in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa McCauley was born on February 4, 1913. The town newspaper reported that the skies were clear and it was unseasonably warm that day, but beyond that, and the fact that she was named after her maternal grandmother, Rose, virtually no reliable documentation exists on the early years of Rosa Louise Parks.
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