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She had a decent childhood, despite segregation. She was raised by her mom, Leona Edwards McCauley,

and maternal grandparents, Sylvester & Rose Edwards. Her dad, Jim McCauley,

left for good when Rosa was 5 and Sylvester was 3. She never saw him again until she and Raymond were married. She moved to Pine Level, Alabama with her grandparents, and worked on a cotton field with her brother. They worked everyday in the fall for a white farmer, sunrise to sunset. slavery had been outlawed but Rosa's childhood was not far from it. She went to church, and was a very religious person.

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Rosa parks childhood was very poor. her grandma once told her about being a slave,it wasn't easy.but she was a good admirer of her grandmas stories

Rosa Parks was born as Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913, to James McCauley and Leona Edwards. She was small, even for a child, and she suffered poor health and had chronic tonsillitis. When her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Pine Level. There she grew up on a farm with her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester. She was homeschooled by her mother until she was eleven, and then enrolled at the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery where she took academic and vocational courses. Parks then went on to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education but was forced to drop out to care for her grandmother, and later for her mother, after they became ill.

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She had a decent childhood, despite segregation. She was raised by her mom, Leona Edwards McCauley,

and maternal grandparents, Sylvester & Rose Edwards. Her dad, Jim McCauley,

left for good when Rosa was 5 and Sylvester was 3. She never saw him again until she and Raymond were married. She moved to Pine Level, Alabama with her grandparents, and worked on a cotton field with her brother. They worked everyday in the fall for a white farmer, sunrise to sunset. slavery had been outlawed but Rosa's childhood was not far from it. She went to church, and was a very religious person.

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