Rosa Louise Mccauley Research Paper

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The beginning of the civil rights era started when Rosa Louise McCauley was born on February 4th, 1913 in the state of Alabama. Young Rosa grew up in a place called Pine Level with her parents, grandparents, and brother Sylvester. Her mother, Leona was a teacher and her father James was a carpenter. One activity that Rosa loved was getting to go fishing with her grandparents, she would always put the worm on the hook for them because they could not see as well as Rosa . Rosa and her brother Sylvester attended a one roomed school, while the white children got to attend a nicer school. There was also not a bus to take black children to school so Rosa and her brother were forced to walk to school every day, but the white children did have a school …show more content…
They thought that it was time that they fought for new laws that made African American people and white people equal. A woman named Jo Ann Robinson told African Americans that they should boycott the buses. She passed out papers asking all African American people in Montgomery to stay off of the buses for one whole day. When the day of the boycott came the buses were almost empty because there were not any African American people riding on them. Then a man named E.D. Dixon organized a meeting of African American people in a church, then a young minister named Martin Luther King Jr. told the people to keep off the buses, everyone at the church cheered and the boycott went on. Rosa and they other African Americans walked to work or took taxis. They even got rides from their friends just to keep the boycott going on. Even when Christmas passed and it was very cold Rosa and the other African Americans would not ride the buses. The white people became very angry because they wanted the African Americans to ride the buses again. Some of the African Americans involved in the boycott even lost their jobs over not riding the buses. A few of the African American people were either beat or arrested because they would not ride the buses. Rosa got telephone calls from people who would not tell her who they were and they said that they really wanted to hurt her. When spring came and it was nice for walking the boycott became very easy once again. All of the African American churches had station wagons so that the people who could not walk very well could get to church. When summer came the buses had to stop running because there were not enough riders with Rosa and the other African American people boycotting the