Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks:
When Rosa Parks was young she had to deal with a lot of racial discrimination. When her parents broke up Rosa went to live with her mother to Pine Level, Alabama. Her grandparent were former slaves and protected Rosa when the Ku Klux Klan walked down the street. Rosa attended segregated school . She dropped out of high school at 11th grade to be with her sick grandmother. She never went back and got a job in a shirt factory. She later married a barber named Raymond Parks. With her husbands help Rosa got her high school degree. She eventually became the secretary for president Nixon. When Rosa Parks wouldn't give her seat up for a white man. Rosa worked with Martin Luther King Jr. on the Civil Rights movement. And she worked against racial discrimination.