A lady of courage and strength, often described as shy in her earlier life, it was she who raised her voice against racial discrimination. The hero of our lives, Rosa Parks. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913. She was the daughter of a carpenter James McCauley and a teacher Leona McCauley and also the granddaughter of a slave (Biography of Rosa Parks). “Rosa McCauley learned this ‘racial rectitude and pride’ from her grandfather, a supporter of Marcus Garvey” (Dunlap). She was two years old when she moved to her grandparents' farm. Rosa attended “the Montgomery Industrial School for Girl” which was a private school “founded by a liberal-minded woman from the northern United States (Biography of Rosa Parks). She later grew up as an African-American civil rights activist and seamstress (Biography of Rosa Parks). She grew up in the south in a racist environment because of which she was always in constant fear. She was well aware of the injustice around her. She has often described in her many interviews that black people had no rights at that time. At the time Rosa was growing up, the Southern states were extremely segregated. The Ku Klux Klan was established in Tennessee, which was a secret society in 1866 and the Klan members were killing and beating several black people for no reason. Rosa was affected by the riots that were taking place, she often described her fear as a girl: “At the time,” she recalled, “we had no civil rights, it was just a matter of survival. I remember going to sleep like a girl, hearing the Ku Klux Klan going up at night, being afraid the house would burn down. "(Rosa Parks biography). She always hated her way of life. Rosa McCauley always wanted to work...... middle of paper...to defend myself. Rosa Parks "whose defiance of segregation laws in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked the civil rights movement in 1955", sadly passed away at her home on Wednesday, October 26 in Detroit at the age of 92. Millions consider Parks the "Mother of the Rights Movement civics, a designation she repeatedly denied; claiming she was only doing what she thought was her right” (Boyd). rights. She is the hero of our country and a ray of light for all black communities in American history in making our country what it is today. Rosa Parks will always be remembered for the work she did for the black community. She played an important role in history and always will. SO.