Rosa Parks McCartney was an American civil rights activist,whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of the freedom movement" and "the mother of the freedom movement".She was born on February 4,1913 in Tuskegee,Alabama.She died on October 24,2005 in Detroit,Michigan.Rosa Parks went to school at Highlander Folk School and Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes.She worked as a seamstress at a Montgomery department store.Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus to get home.She took a seat in the first of several rows designated for "colored" passengers.Her parents were Leona and James McCartney. In 1932,at age 19,Rosa met and married Raymond Parks,a barber and an active member of the National Association for the Advancement
