![]() When Rosa was 28, she met a young man named Raymond. There she found jobs to help earn money for her family. Rosa stayed at the school until her grandmother became sick, so she moved back to Pine Level to help. This motivated Rosa to try her best in school and learn as much as she could. Often people who love you, do this because they want to see you be your best you. She didn’t go easy on the girls, but this wasn’t because she was mean, it was because she wanted them to learn and grow. The head of the school was a white woman named Alice White. It was called the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. When Rosa was eleven, she moved to Montogomery, Alabama to go to a better school. They were often called mean names or abused. They were forced attend separate schools, used separate bathrooms, and to drink from different drinking fountains. Rosa and her family were African American and this was a time when black people were treated poorly in Alabama. Rosa was safe in Pine Level, but this wasn’t the case in other places in Alabama. They explored the woods and streams nearby and she enjoyed the school there. ![]() ![]() It gave her and her siblings lots of room to play and spend time with each other. Rosa loved being on the farm with her family. Then when she was two their family moved to live with their grandparents on a farm in a town called Pine Level. When she was a child she was often sick and sadly had to spend a lot of time in bed. ![]() Rosa was born on Februin Tuskagee, Alabama. ![]()
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