![]() ![]() On December 5, at her trial, she was found guilty of disorderly conduct and violating a local ordinance. On December 1, 1955, while riding a bus home from her job as a department-store seamstress, she refused to obey the driver's direction to move from her seat to make room for a newly boarded white passenger. Her involvement with the organization heightened her awareness of the injustices imposed by Jim Crow laws in the former Confederate states, which mandated racial segregation in public facilities and retail establishments. Ten years later, she joined the NAACP and was elected secretary. ![]() ![]() In 1933, she completed her high school studies. In 1932, she married barber Raymond Parks, who was working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was raised on a farm, attended rural schools, then took some vocational and academic courses at the Industrial School for Girls in Montgomery before leaving to care for her grandmother and mother during their illnesses. Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, on February 4, 1913. ![]()
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