Rosa Louise McCauley was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 she moved with parents, James and Leona McCauley, to pine level, Alabama at age 2 to reside with Leona parents. Her brother Sylvester was born 1915 and shortly after that her parents separated. Her father was employed as a carpenter and her mother as a teacher. In her younger years she was sick much of the time and as a result was a small child. Her parents eventually separated and her mother took her and her brother and moved to Montgomery, Alabama. there Rosa spent the rest of the childhood on her grandparents farm. Her childhood in Montgomery helped her develop strong roots in the African Methodist episcopal church Rosa did not attend a public school until the age of eleven. Before that, she was home schooled by her mother. at age eleven she attended the industrial school for girls in Montgomery where she took various vocational and academic courses. She began laboratory school for her secondary education, but never completed it because she was forced.
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