She left at 16, early in 11th grade, because she needed to care for her dying grandmother and, shortly thereafter, her chronically ill mother. Rosa moved to Montgomery, Alabama, at age 11 and eventually attended high school there, a laboratory school at the Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes. Rosa’s mother was a teacher, and the family valued education. She stood her ground until Blake pulled her coat sleeve, enraged, to demand her cooperation. Parks stepped onto his very crowded bus on a chilly day 12 years earlier, paid her fare at the front, then resisted the rule in place for Black people to disembark and re-enter through the back door. Her brother, Sylvester, was born in 1915, and shortly after that her parents separated.ĭid you know? When Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in 1955, it wasn’t the first time she’d clashed with driver James Blake. She moved with her parents, James and Leona McCauley, to Pine Level, Alabama, at age 2 to reside with Leona’s parents. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913.
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