Friday! time for an American Hero! today is:

American Heroes~by rldubour

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005)

Born in Tuskegee, Alabama
To Leona and James McCauley
Of African, Cherokee-Creek
And Scots-Irish ancestry.

Father was a carpenter
Mother was a teacher
Rosa had a younger brother
His name was Sylvester

Rosa was a small child
Suffered from poor health.
Chronic tonsillitis mom
Always by her side to help.

When her parents separated
They moved to grandparents’ farm
Just outside of Montgomery
She thought was her lucky charm.

Attending rural schools
Until the age of eleven.
Taking academic and vocational
Courses was the discretion.

Then attending teachers college
Set up by the state of Alabama
Was forced to drop out to care
For ailing grandma and mamma.

In nineteen hundred and thirty- two
She married Raymond Parks.
Taking numerous jobs from domestic
Worker to Hospital Aide she did embark.

Racial segregation was imposed