Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa had one other siblings, a younger brother named Sylvester. Rosa's mother's name is Leona and her father's name is James McCauley. Both Leona and James used to and were born slaves but when Rosa was born her mother was working at a school as a teacher and the father working as a carpenter. Rosa's parents divorced at when rosa was very young, Rosa along with her brother Sylvester and her mother Leona went to live with her grandparents in Pine Level a town next to Montgomery, Alabama.
Her grandparents lived at a farm and this is where she will live the rest of her childhood at. In one experience while she was living there Rosa's grandfather stood outside their …show more content…
Black citizens of Montgomery usually avoided the buses if possible because they found the “Negroes-in-black” policy so degrading. Nevertheless, 70% more or less of the bus riders were black but on this day Rosa was one of them. The front of the bus was reserved for white people and the seats in the back for black citizens. However, it was only by custom the bus drivers had the authority to ask a black person to give up a seat for a white rider. The was a lot of contradictory in the Montgomery laws: One said segregation must be enforced but another said no person (white or black) could be asked to give up a seat even if there were no other seat on the bus available. Nevertheless, at one point on the ride, a white man had no seat because all the seats in the “white” section were taken so the bus driver told the “colored” section to stand this made another row of the “white” section. Three of the people obeyed but Parks did not. Eventually, two police officers came to the stopped bus, analyzed the problem and placed Parks in custody. Rosa used her one phone call to call her husband to inform him of her arrest, word spread quickly of her arrest and E.D Nixon (Long time activist for the NAACP) was there when Rosa Parks was bailed out later that evening. On December 5, Parks was found guilty of violating segregation laws, she was given a suspended sentence and
Her grandparents lived at a farm and this is where she will live the rest of her childhood at. In one experience while she was living there Rosa's grandfather stood outside their …show more content…
Black citizens of Montgomery usually avoided the buses if possible because they found the “Negroes-in-black” policy so degrading. Nevertheless, 70% more or less of the bus riders were black but on this day Rosa was one of them. The front of the bus was reserved for white people and the seats in the back for black citizens. However, it was only by custom the bus drivers had the authority to ask a black person to give up a seat for a white rider. The was a lot of contradictory in the Montgomery laws: One said segregation must be enforced but another said no person (white or black) could be asked to give up a seat even if there were no other seat on the bus available. Nevertheless, at one point on the ride, a white man had no seat because all the seats in the “white” section were taken so the bus driver told the “colored” section to stand this made another row of the “white” section. Three of the people obeyed but Parks did not. Eventually, two police officers came to the stopped bus, analyzed the problem and placed Parks in custody. Rosa used her one phone call to call her husband to inform him of her arrest, word spread quickly of her arrest and E.D Nixon (Long time activist for the NAACP) was there when Rosa Parks was bailed out later that evening. On December 5, Parks was found guilty of violating segregation laws, she was given a suspended sentence and