Rosa Parks Short Biography - 440 Words

Rosa Parks (full name: Rosa Louise McCauley Parks) was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".

Childhood
Rosa Parks was born to Leone, a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. At the early age she suffered from chronic