Racial Equality: Rosa Parks

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Rosa Parks was born on February 4th, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She lived with family but after her parents had separated her mother moved the family go to Pine Level, Alabama to live with her grandmother. Here, she experienced racial equality during her childhood. She had to learn a separate classroom reserved for blacks; school supplies are not adequate for the white students. While white students are taking the bus to school, the blacks students including Rose Park had to walk to school.
In 1929, while in the 11th grade, as her mother and her grandmother was ill, she had to leave school to care for her mother and her grandmother. She never returned to her studies. Instead, Rose Park got a job at a shirt factory in Montgomery. At age 19,

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