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I have done some reading in Rosa Parks. I have read that her real name was Rosa Louise McCauley she was born on February4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, US. After her parents divorce, rosa her mother and sibling to pine level, Alabama here where Rosa maternal grandparents lived, who were former slaves. Rosa attended segregated school throughout her childhood, which her and her sibling had to walk to while the white student in her community rode a bus. She also attended a secondary school but had to leave in the 11th grade to take care of her ill grandmother. She was not able to return to school, instead she got a job in a factory in Montgomery to help support her family. At the age of 19, Rosa fell in love with a barber named Raymond Parks

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