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Rosa Parks Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegge, Alabama on February 4,1913. Two years later in 1915 Rosa moved to Pine Level, Alabama with her family. They lived in Rosa’s grandparents farm where there were cows, chickens, fruit, and nut trees. Also that year Rosa’s brother was born, Sylvester. Her mother Leona was a school-teacher. Her father, James McAllen was a carpenter and a house builder. He frequently moved around to find work. While Rosa was growing up she hardly saw him. During Rosa’s childhood discrimination against African Americans was strong. Black and white people was segregated. They were kept apart on streetcars, trains, parks, drinking fountains, churches, hotels, theaters, and restaurants. Even the US military was segregated. Basically in all public places blacks were judged by the color of their skin not by their character. The whites had the most advantages. One evening on December first of 1955 Rosa was sitting in the front of the colored section of a Montgomery bus, and the white section was filled, so by law Rosa had to give up her seat to a white man. But she didn’t move. The driver of the bus, James Blake said to Rosa, “Let them have those front seats.” She didn’t rosa, white, public, parks, montgomery, law, bus, boycott, african, people, king, court, work, strong, segregated, section, rosa’s, moved, medal, martin, luther, jr, james, house, homes, front, found, find, dr, didn’t, detroit, december, buses, arrested, arrest