Rosa Parks, who fought for civil rights long before the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955, was born on Feb. 4, 1913. Parks, in December 1943, joined and became secretary of the local NAACP chapter ...

ALL THIS MONTH. WVTM 13 PROJECT COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES ALABAMIANS WHO BROKE BARRIERS AND RAISED THE BAR FOR EVERYONE. PEOPLE LIKE ROSA PARKS, BORN IN TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA, ON FEBRUARY 4TH, 1913 AND LATER ...

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” — Rosa Parks Rosa Louise (McCauley) Parks was born Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Ala.

According to RosaParks.org, Parks was Rosa Louise McCauley. She was the first child of James and Leona Edwards McCauley. Later, the family moved to Pine Level, Alabama where Rosa was educated in a ...