Rosa Parks
By Ishika
Hello! I’m Rosa Parks. My full name was Rosa Louise McCauley.
I was born on February 14, 1913. My family grew up in Tuskegee Alabama. After
my parents were separated, my mother, brother, and I moved to my grandparent’s
farm in Pine Level Town. When I was in school, my mother got ill so I had to
leave school to take care of her.
After I married Raymond Parks, I went back to school to get
my high school diploma. The city of Montgomery was segragated, and that meant
the separation of black and white people.
Raymond and I joined the National Advancement Association of
Colored People because we wanted to do something about the separation. I got
arrested on a bus by sitting in a white person’s seat. 
After I got arrested, I refused to pay the $10 fine so I got
sent to the Supreme court where I represented myself. Martin Luther King Jr.
and I led the boycott for not going on the buses because we wanted to change
the law about segregation. The Supreme
court finally declared that segregation was unlawful and was banned from the
U.S. I died on October 24, 2005. 
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