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A Brief Biography of Rosa Parks (1913 2005) Page 12005 AntiDefamation League http://www.adl.org/educationA Brief Biography of Rosa Parks (1913 2005) Rosa Parks became the Mother of the Modern Day Civil Rights Movement when she transformed the nation on December 1 1955 by defying racist policies in defense of her human right to dignity and equal treatment. Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee Alabama on April 2 1913. She was the granddaughter of former Bettmann/CORBISslaves and the daughter of James McCauley a carpenter and Leona McCauley a rural schoolteacher. Upon the separation of her parents when she was two Rosa moved to her maternal grandparents' farm in Pine Level Alabama with her mother and younger brother Sylvester. Rosa attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls a private school founded by several liberal women from northern states. She then went on to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes (now known as Alabama State University) but was forced to drop out when both her grandmother and mother fell ill. In 1932 Rosa married Raymond Parks a barber who had long been active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). While Rosa worked with the organization's state president Edgar Daniel Nixon to mobilize a voter registration drive in Montgomery Raymond Parks worked to help free the defendants in the famous Scottsboro case in which nine young black men were accused of raping two white women. An allwhite jury convicted the nine men and sentenced eight of them to death despite strong evidence of their innocence. All of the Scottsboro defendants eventually gained their freedom but the process took nearly 20 years. Rosa Parks recalled in an interview "I worked on numerous cases with the NAACP but we did not get the publicity. There were cases of flogging peonage murder and rape. We didn't seem to have too many successes. It was more a matter of trying to challeng ...

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