Rosa Parks, civil rights activist, a citizen in Alabama, and one of many of the bravest ladies in Today’s Black History. Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her defiance of giving up her seat on a bus for a white passenger got her arrested and she had to pay a $10 court fee but that paid off because it lead to many boycotts and riots that finally Montgomery, Alabama withdrew the law of segregation on public buses. During her early childhood she was discriminated by the color of her skin. Because she was colored she had to attend segregated schools. Colored students were forced to walk while white students rode the bus to school. Her mother, Leona McCauley taught her to read at a young age.
