Rosa Parks was a great activist in the civil rights movement. “Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama. His father was James McCauley, a carpenter, and his mother was Leona McCauley, a teacher. She moved to her grandparents' farm in Pine Level, Alabama, when she was two years old with her mother and younger brother, Sylvester. Her mother taught until she was 11 years old. At the age of 11, she was sent to the Montgomery Industrial School, a private school founded by a woman in the northern United States. The school was founded and run by whites to educate black children; the school was burned down twice by arsonists from the white community. Parks took academic courses there. (Woo, Elaine). After completing her studies, she started dabbling in politics. "Ms. Rosa Parks was often known as the mother of the movement that led to the dismantling of segregation in the South; Ms. Parks became a symbol of human dignity when she was imprisoned for refusing to leave her seat of office. bus to hand it over to a white man on her way home from work Rosa Parks participated in many acts of the civil rights movement “After attending Alabama State Teachers College, Rosa settled down. in Montgomery, with Raymond Parks who was her husband at the time. The couple joined the NAACP and worked quietly for several years to segregate African Americans in the South. remembers Rosa Parks, “but we didn't get any publicity. There were cases of flogging, peonage, murder and rape. It didn't seem like we had much success. trying to challenge the powers that be and make it known that we did not want to be second. the citizen class... middle of paper ... was overturned by the Supreme Court, which also banned racial segregation in public transportation (Rosa Parks). » Rosa Parks has done many things in her life to revolutionize the world. world, so that it can become what it is today. It helped bring blacks and whites together and demolished most segregations. Her actions as an activist brought about worthy changes to social laws. Parks: 1913-2005." Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, California). October 25, 2005: A1+. SIRS Renaissance. Internet. April 16, 2014. HILL, RUTH EDMONDS. "Rosa Parcs." Black Heroes (2001): 528. Viewpoints Reference Center. Internet. April 23, 2014. Edelman, Marian Wright. "Ms. Rosa Parks – Before and After the Bus." Internet Viewpoints Reference Center. April 23, 2014. “Rosa Parks” March 5, 2014: Achievement, Web, April 22. 2014.