her family
Parks was the first of two children born to James and Leona [Edwards] McCauley. Her parents were farmers who held other jobs as well. Her father worked as a carpenter while her mother was also a teacher . An ill child, parks parents separated when she was young and her mother raised her and her brother on her maternal grandparents farm In pine level Alabama. Parks received her early education at a blacks only one room schoolhouse where classes were only held for five mouths a year so that students could work the fields. Violence against African American including lynching ad burning , was a part of her life , as the KU Klux Klan was active in the area.
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