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She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, from Leona, a teacher, and James McCauley, a carpenter. When her parents split up, she moved with her mother to Pine Level, just outside the state capital, Montgomery. She grew up on a farm with her maternal grandparents, mother, and younger brother Sylvester. Parks went to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for secondary education but dropped out to take care for her ill grandmother and, later, her mother. She worked as a seamstress after leaving school. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks, a barber from Montgomery and member of NAACP (National association for the Advancement of Colored People) and then she finished her high school studies in 1933. In December 1943, Parks became active in the civil rights movement by joining the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Then, she continued her work as an anti-rape activist. Parks died of natural causes on October 24, 2005. Around the turn of the 20th century, under the white-established Jim Crow laws, racial segregation was imposed in public facilities and retail stores in the South, including public transportation. In fact, Black people had different schools, different churches and the most places had signs saying, “For colored only” or “For whites only”. Bus and train companies enforced seating policies with separate sections for blacks and whites. School bus transportation was unavailable in any form for black schoolchildren in the South, and black education was always underfunded. Montgomery buses: law and prevailing customs In 1900, Montgomery had passed a city ordinance to segregate bus passengers by race. According to the law, black people and white people had to sit in certain seats on the bus. If all the “white seats” were taken then a black person had to stand up to let the white person sit down. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was riding a crowded Montgomery city bus when the driver ordered her to give up her seat to a white man, who couldn’t find a seat in the “white section” on the bus, but Parks refused. The bus driver called the police and Rosa was arrested. She was charged with a violation of segregation law of the Montgomery City code. The trial, which lasted 30 minutes, found her guilty and fined her of $10. Montgomery bus boycot On Sunday, December 4, 1955, plans for the Montgomery bus boycott were announced at black churches in the area: Instead of riding the buses to work, many African-american people in Montgomery found other ways to get to work. Black resident of Montgomery continued the boycott for over a year: until they were treated with the level of courtesy they expected. Dozens of public buses did nothing for months, severely damaging the bus transit company's finances. The boycott ended when the U.S. supreme court ruled that the segregation laws on Alabama's buses were illegal. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement"....