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Rosa Parks lived from February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005 and was of African American, Scots-Irish, and Cherokee heritage. Her parents were a carpenter and a teacher. After the separation of her parents, she grew up on a farm in Montgomery, Alabama with her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester.

Rosa Parks attended rural schools until the age of eleven then enrolled at the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery where she took academic and vocational courses.

She had mixed memories of her childhood, ranging from kindnesses of strangers to the Ku Klux Klan marching past her house, with her grandfather guarding their door with a shotgun, and her school twice being burned by arsonists.

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