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Learn about James McCauley, the carpenter and stonemason who became Rosa Parks' father after her mother died. See his photograph and his marriage certificate from the Rosa Parks Collection at the Library of Congress.
7. Mai 2024 · Born to parents James McCauley, a skilled stonemason and carpenter, and Leona Edwards McCauley, a teacher, in Tuskegee, Alabama, Rosa Louise McCauley spent much of her childhood and youth ill with chronic tonsillitis. When she was two years old, shortly after the birth of her younger brother, Sylvester, her parents chose to separate ...
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- Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott...
- When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus for white passengers in 1955, she was arrested for violating the cit...
- Rosa Parks was not the first Black woman to refuse to give up her seat on a segregated bus, though her story attracted the most attention nationwid...
- In 1992 Rosa Parks published Rosa Parks: My Story, an autobiography written with Jim Haskins that described her role in the American civil rights m...
Die Bürgerrechtlerin Rosa Parks. Unter der Führung von Martin Luther King startete dieser Boykott die Abschaffung der Rassentrennung in den USA. Rosa Parks‘ mutiger Akt und ihr lebenslanges Engagement für die Gleichberechtigung hatten große Auswirkungen auf die Geschichte der USA.
Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913, to Leona (née Edwards), a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. In addition to African ancestry, one of Parks's great-grandfathers was Scots-Irish, and one of her great-grandmothers was a part–Native American slave.
- Rosa Louise McCauley, February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.
- Civil rights activist
- October 24, 2005 (aged 92), Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
- Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit
- # Early Years
- # Jim Crow Laws
- # The Ku Klux Klan
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On February 4, 1913, Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama to parents James McCauley and Leona Edwards. Her father was employed as a carpenter and her mother as a teacher. In her younger years she was sick much of the time, and as a result, was a small child. Her parents eventually separated and her mother took her and her brother and ...
The Jim Crow Laws that segregated blacks from whites were created by white members of the Democratic Party in the Southern states between 1876 and 1963. They created many barriers for black voters and had several regulations including banning interracial marriage and providing racially segregated school systems. This continued existence of this pol...
In her autobiography, Rosa recalls her grandfather standing at the front door of the farmhouse with a loaded shotgun in his hand while he watched as the Ku Klux Klan marched down their street. As frightening as this was to her as a little girl, it taught her much about the very real prejudices against blacks in American culture. On the other hand, ...
Rosa Parks' parents were James McCauley and Leona Edwards, who were carpenter and teacher, respectively. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913 and grew up on her grandparents' farm. She faced segregation, discrimination and violence in the Jim Crow era of the South. She also developed a strong faith in God and a love for her community.
James McCauley is an American actor, director and composer who was born in Roswell, New Mexico. He has appeared in TV shows such as Outsiders, Modern Family and True Blood, and co-founded the production company MCC FILMS.
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