was a civil rights leader. She attended Alabama State College, worked as a

seamstress and as a housekeeper. Her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter,

and her mother, Leona (Edward's) McCauley was a teacher. Rosa P. had one

Her family lived in Tuskegee. When Rosa was two years-old her parents

split up and she, her mother, and her brother moved to her grandparents farm in

Nearby Pine Level, Alabama. Her grandparents were one of the few black

families who owned their own land, rather than work for someone else. Although

they were poor, they were able to raise enough food for all.

During the first half of this century for all blacks living in America skin

color affected every part of their lives. The South in particular was very racist.

Slavery had been abolished only by some fifty years earlier, and blacks were still

hated and were feared by whites because of skin color.

Jim Crow had a law "separate but equal." The Supreme Court ruled in

1896, that equal protection could not mean separate but equal facilities. Blacks

were made to feel inferior to whites in every way. They were restricted in their

boycott, which soon brought him to the forefront of national attention.

family knew the value of education. Rosa attended the local black elementary

Girls. At the age of 13, she started a Booker T. Washington Junior High, a black

again took in sewing. She also worked as a fundraiser for the NAACP. In 1965

Award (1980), as well as an honorary degree from Shaw College.

power structure do away with segregation is to take some money out of their

to abandon their education. The McCauley family was determined that Rosa

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