Rosa Parks
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was born on February 4,1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was a civil rights leader. She attended Alabama State College, worked as a seamstress and as a housekeeper. Her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter, and her mother, Leona (Edward's) McCauley was a teacher. Rosa P. had one younger brother named, Sylvester. Her family lived in Tu ....
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.... choices of housing and jobs, were forced to attend segregated schools, and were prohibited from using many restaurants, movie theaters. said, years later, "Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all of you were doing was acting like a normal human being, instead of crining. You didn't have to wait for a lynching. You died each time you found yourself face to face with this kind of discrimination." didn't like attending a poor, on ....
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Number of pages: 4 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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