Near Abbeville in Henry County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
Rosa Parks Lived Here
Photographed By David J Gaines, October 14, 2012
1. Rosa Parks Lived Here Marker
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.
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Rosa McCauley married Richard Parks of Pine Level in 1932. She returned to Henry County in 1944 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.
Erected 2006.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Civil Rights. A significant historical month for this entry is February 1819.
Location.
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Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Henry County Training School (approx. 1.7 miles away); Liberty Enlightening the World (approx. 2.6 miles away); Abbeville Southern Railroad / Pelham House (approx. 2.7 miles away); Alabama's First Peanut Oil Mill (approx. 3 miles away); A County Older Than the State (approx. 3 miles away); Henry, The Mother County (approx. 3 miles away); In Honor of William Calvin Oates (approx. 3 miles away); Nordan's (approx. 3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Abbeville.
Photographed By David J Gaines, October 14, 2012
2. Rosa Parks Lived Here Marker
Photographed By David J Gaines, October 14, 2012
3. Rosa Parks Lived Here Marker
1956
4. Rosa Parks & D. H. Lackey
This 1956 AP photo of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Sheriff D. H. Lackey hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
“As a boycott of Montgomery, Alabama's racially segregated buses entered its third month, Rosa Parks was arrested for the second time. One of 115 black Montgomerians including Martin Luther King Jr. to be indicted by the county grand jury on charges of violating a 1921 Alabama law prohibiting boycotts, Parks was taken into custody and jailed on February 22, 1956. Although the Montgomery Improvement Association quickly posted Parks's bail, this wire service photo of the dignified seamstress being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D. H. Lackey appeared the next day on the front page of the New York Times and ran in countless newspapers across the nation.” — National Portrait Gallery
“As a boycott of Montgomery, Alabama's racially segregated buses entered its third month, Rosa Parks was arrested for the second time. One of 115 black Montgomerians including Martin Luther King Jr. to be indicted by the county grand jury on charges of violating a 1921 Alabama law prohibiting boycotts, Parks was taken into custody and jailed on February 22, 1956. Although the Montgomery Improvement Association quickly posted Parks's bail, this wire service photo of the dignified seamstress being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D. H. Lackey appeared the next day on the front page of the New York Times and ran in countless newspapers across the nation.” — National Portrait Gallery
Photographed By James L.Whitman, February 18, 2024
5. Rosa Parks Lived Here Marker - Repaired
Photographed By James L.Whitman, February 18, 2024
6. Rosa Parks Lived Here Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on February 18, 2024. It was originally submitted on October 29, 2012, by David J Gaines of Pinson, Alabama. This page has been viewed 3,725 times since then and 155 times this year. Last updated on February 18, 2024, by James L.Whitman of Eufaula, Alabama. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on October 29, 2012, by David J Gaines of Pinson, Alabama. 4. submitted on August 25, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland. 5, 6. submitted on February 18, 2024, by James L.Whitman of Eufaula, Alabama. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.
