Financial difficulties and family illness during the Great Depression forced Parks to drop out of school at age 16. She became a domestic worker and a seamstress, marrying Raymond Parks in 1932 ...

Rosa Parks became a civil rights icon for refusing to give up her bus seat, but it led to personal and financial hardship for ...

McCauley married Raymond Parks in 1932. They lived in Montgomery, Alabama’s capital city. They were both active in the Civil Rights Movement, with Rosa Parks volunteering as a secretary for the ...