Montgomery Bus Boycott: Rosa Parks

Have you ever heard of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? Do you know who started it all? Well, listen carefully to find out more about this amazing, influential person. First of all, family was very important to Rosa Parks. She was born on February fourth, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her maiden name is Rosa Louise McCauley. When Parks was sixteen years old, 1929, she dropped out of high school to help her grandmother. Her grandmother was very ill. After all Parks had gone through, about a month later, she passed away. This was a very tragic event for Parks because she was so close to her.
When she was eleven years old, she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a school for African-Americans. She received her high school diploma