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Montgomery Industrial School for Girls (1886–1928) was a private primary school for African American girls in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. It was founded in 1886 by Alice White and H. Margaret Beard. Indeed Rosa Parks, who attended the school from 1924 to 1929, considered a letter from White, written just before her death, to be one of her prized possessions and a reminder that not all whites were racists. Former students have praised the school's high standard of education. Rosa’s Education. Miss White’s Montgomery Industrial School for Girls required its students to wear uniforms and forbade make-up, jewelry, movies, and dancing. Rosa completed ninth grade at Booker T. Washington Junior High in Montgomery and the tenth and eleventh grades at Alabama State Teachers College without these restrictions. In 1924, 11-year-old McCauley enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, which offered a vocational curriculum of cooking, sewing, and housekeeping under the instruction of northern whites. Family illnesses forced McCauley to quit school at age 16, when she began cleaning houses for white people and taking in sewing. The Montgomery Industrial School for Girls was established in 1886 to served African American students in Montgomery, Montgomery County. The school's most famous graduate Rosa Parks, who was among several students significant in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Beginning at age 11, Parks attended the city’s Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. In 1929, while in the 11th grade and attending a laboratory school for secondary education led by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes, Parks left school to attend to both her sick grandmother and mother back in Pine Level. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005) From an early age, Rosa McCauley Parks was aware of the injustices of segregation in Alabama. She had heard stories of a successful boycott that had achieved integration on Montgomery ’s trolley system in 1900. In 1924, Parks' mother sent her to the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school operated by Alice L. White. Miss White's School, as it was commonly known, enjoyed an excellent academic reputation, but the headmistress, a white liberal from Melrose, Massachusetts, was generally ostracized by Montgomery's white community, and the One of the most highly famed civil rights activists, Rosa Parks, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. She attended local segregated schools, and after the age of 11, the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery. Rosa attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, an all-black private school where Rosa performed janitorial work in exchange for tuition. She began high school at Booker T. Washington High, but was forced to drop out to help take care of her ailing mother and grandmother. At age 11, Rosa began at the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery, Alabama. She moved onto a laboratory school for secondary education led by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes. Nevertheless, her mother taught her to read at a young age, and Parks later enrolled at the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery, Alabama. Although she had to leave school in the 11th grade to care for her ailing family members, she ultimately graduated high school in 1933, a significant achievement at a time when many Black children in Rosa Parks attended a rural school in Pine Level, Alabama until she was eleven years old. She was then enrolled at the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. Rosa Parks was born in 1913, and Initially, Rosa attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, which was a school specifically for Black students and covered 9th grade. This institution was unique because it offered an educational platform for African-American girls at a time when educational opportunities for Black communities were extremely limited. At the age of 11 she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school founded by liberal-minded women from the northern United States. Rosa Parks booking photo following her February 1956 arrest during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. Parks, Rosa. Rosa Parks: My Story. New York: Puffin Books, 1999. Theoharis, Jeanne. The Rebellious Life of Mrs.Rosa Parks. New York: Beacon Press, 2014. Certaines des femmes qui sont devenues influentes dans le mouvement des droits civiques, dont Rosa Parks, ont fréquenté l'école industrielle Montgomery pour filles [1], [2]. White et Beard étaient membres de l' American Missionary Association (AMA), une organisation composée principalement de missionnaires congrégationalistes qui Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She spent her childhood in Alabama. At the age of 11, she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, which was a private school. Later, she worked as a seamstress in Montgomery. Rosa Parks has been called the "mother of the civil rights Previous 11 of 23 Next All Objects Letter from a Classmate. Rosa Parks was already reading when she began school in Pine Level, Alabama. Moving to Montgomery at age eleven, she attended Miss White’s Montgomery Industrial School for Girls and, later, high school at Alabama State Teachers College. California and Missouri commemorate Rosa Parks Day on her birthday February 4, while Ohio and Oregon commemorate the occasion on the anniversary of the day she was arrested, December 1. 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.
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