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Rosa’s parents were slaves and strong advocates for civil rights.
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Her mom taught her to read at a young age.
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Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee Alabama.
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Attended a segregated one room school in pine level Alabama
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When to a laboratory school for secondary education and dropped out in 11th grade, To help her sick mom and grandmother.
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Rosa got a job at a shirt factory.
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After high school she got actively involved in civil rights by joining the NAACP
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Rosa got married to Raymond Parks in 1932.
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She earned her high school degree in 1933.
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Rosa Parks got on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa was told to give up her seat to a white passenger. Rosa refused and she arrested. This started a 381 day bus boycott, it forced Montgomery had to lift the law.