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EARLY LIFE

• Born February 4th, 1913
• Mother was Leona McCauley & Father was James McCauley.
• One brother named Sylvester McCauley.
• 1917- family moved to Pine Level, Alabama.

EDUCATION

• 1924-Montgomery Idustrial School for Girls
• Booker T. Washington HS
• Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes
• 1934-high school diploma.

MARRIAGE

NAACP

• Organization the works to end unfair treatment of African Americans
• Raymond Parks was a member for many years before marrying me.
• Led me to join after we married.
• Only women there, became the secretary.

GETTING ARRESTED

• December 1, 1955
• Sat on crowded bus and was asked to move for a white man.
• Denied the request and was arrested and fined $14

MONTGOMERY BOYCOTT

• African Americans to refuse riding segregated buses
• The bus boycott lasted for 381 days.
• The case was taken all the way to the Supreme Court.
• No longer were busses segregated.

A FEW ACHIEVMENTS

• 1966- Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Was one of few people to meet Nelson Mandela on his release from prison
• 1977- awarded Congresional Gold Medal- the highest award of Congress.

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