Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee Alabama on February 4 1913 Her mother Leona Edwards McCauley was a schoolteacher Rosa's father James McCauley was a carpenter and housebuilder Rosa was the great granddaughter of slaves
Soon after Rosa was born her family moved to Pine Level Alabama They lived on Rosa's grandparents small farm where there were cows chickens fruit and nut trees In 1915 when Rosa was two years old her brother Sylvester was born Soon after that their father left He moved around to find work While Rosa was growing up she hardly saw him As Rosa grew older she worked on her grandparents farm and in the nearby cotton fields In the spring she cleared weeds away In the fall she picked cotton
