Chapter One examines the less familiar familial background of Rosa Parks. At a young age Park’s parents decided to go their separate ways, this lead Parks and her mom to move from Abbeville back to Alabama to live with her grandparents. Rosa Park’s grandfather, Sylvester Edwards had a positive, influential impact in her life and who she would later become. He taught her to defend herself, her family, and others, and to never put up with discriminatory treatment. For example, a young Parks often assisted her grandfather when he sit on his house porch and guarded his home and family from white domestic terrorists.
Nearly thirty years later, Parks, a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) member and activist, returned
Nearly thirty years later, Parks, a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) member and activist, returned