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 Rosa Parks Lived Here - Abbeville, AL
N 31° 35.585 W 085° 17.667
16R E 661816 N 3496595
Shortly after her birth civil rights pioneer Rosa McCauley moved here to a 260 acre farm owned by her grandparents, Anderson and Louisa McCauley.
Waymark Code: WMFKD1
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 10/29/2012
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The Rosa Parks Lived Here historical marker is a standard Historic Chattahoochee Commission metal marker. It is located on AL Hwy 10 west of US Hwy 431. The marker was placed by the Historic Chattahoochee Commission, the Henry County Historical Group, State Representative Locy Baker, and State Senator Myron Penn.
Marker Name: Rosa Parks Lived Here
Marker Type: Rural Roadside
Addtional Information::
Marker Text:
Civil rights pioneer Rosa McCauley Parks was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Shortly after her birth her parents James and Leona McCauley, moved here to a 260 acre farm owned by her grandparents, Anderson and Louisa McCauley. Her father, a builder, designed and constructed the Henry County Training School for black students in 1914. After a few years in Henry County, Rosa and her mother moved to Pine Level, Alabama, to live with her maternal grandparents, while her father went north seeking new building opportunities.
Rosa McCauley married Richard Parks of Pine Level in 1932. She returned to Henry County in 1914 on behalf of the NAACP to investigate the alleged rape of a young black mother by seven white youths. Rosa McCauley Parks gained national attention on December 1, 1955 when she refused to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama public bus to a white man. Her refusal to go to the back of the bus sparked a successful bus boycott that earned Rosa McCauley Parks the title of “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement in America.” She died at her home in Detroit, Michigan, on October 24, 2005.
Date Dedicated / Placed: 2006
Marker Number: None
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