History Hall Of Fame: Rosa Parks

“Each person must live their life as a model for others” said Rosa Louise McCauley Parks. She is also known as the mother of the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was a woman who was tired of not standing up for what she believed in. Finally one day she did and her actions began a movement that ended legal segregation in America. She made our world a better place, which is why Rosa Parks belong’s in American’s History Hall Of Fame. Rosa parks was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She had one brother named Sylvester McCauley who was born in 1915. Leona McCauley is their mother and James McCauley was their father. Leona taught Rosa at a young age how to read. After her parents separated, Rosa's mother moved the family to Pine Level, Alabama to live with her parents, Rose and Sylvester Edward. She attended a segregated school in Pine Level, Alabama. This school lacked in school supplies such as desks. In 1929 Rosa was in eleventh grade at a laboratory school in Montgomery, but she left school to help her sick mother and grandmother back in Pine Level and never returned to her studies. In 1932 at age nineteen, Rosa met and married Raymond Parks. Raymond parks was a barber and an active member of the National …show more content…
Such as in 1996 when Rosa Parks received the Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton. In 1999 president Clinton awarded Rosa the 250th Congressional Gold Medal of Honor. This is the highest honor a civilian can receive in the United States. Rosa worked worked her whole life to try to make the world a better place. For example, after attending Alabama State Teachers College, young Rosa Parks settled in Montgomery, with her husband, Raymond Parks. Together they joined the local chapter of the NAACP. The NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Rosa and Raymond worked quietly for many years to improve the lot of African Americans in the segregated